Harold L. Springer III ’59

Hal died Aug. 31, 2012, at home in Wilmington, Del., after a long illness.

Hal came to Princeton from Alexis I. duPont High School. He majored in psychology and joined Cloister Inn. Following graduation, as he said in our 25th-reunion yearbook, he “tempted the fate of the draft” by returning to his summer-vacation employer, the Delaware State Hospital, as a recreational therapist. The fates caught up with him and he was drafted into the Army, serving two years in the Intelligence Corps in Philadelphia.

After his discharge, Hal worked for the predecessor to the United Way of Delaware as a campaign assistant, then as assistant director of the Fontana Art Gallery in Narberth, Pa. In 1969 he took a position as assistant director of the Children’s Beach House Inc., a Delaware foundation in Lewes Beach that provides summer residential programs for children with special needs. By 1974 he had become executive director of the foundation, and during his 30-year tenure he supervised expansion of the Beach House services, development of year-round programs, and enlargement of the physical facility.

Hal is survived by his partner, Kenneth E. Stecher; his brothers, Charles and Stephen; and his sister, Edith *74 p’87, to all of whom we offer our condolences.