Harold N. Munger Jr. ’41

Hal died of respiratory failure Feb. 9, 2011, at his home in Osterville, Mass.  

He graduated from Lawrenceville and spent a postgraduate year at Andover. At Princeton he majored in English and graduated with honors. A skilled golfer, he was on the golf team all four years and contributed to the intercollegiate championship win in the spring of 1941. He was secretary-treasurer of Colonial Club, and roomed first with Hooker Herring, and then with Jim MacColl.

Entering the Army right after graduation, he completed OCS and then joined the 104th Timberwolf Division. He won a Bronze Star before being separated as a captain in 1945.

Hal began a career in book publishing, first with the Princeton University Press and then as director of Rutgers University Press, where he published The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. By our 25th reunion he was with Franklin Book Programs in New York, an effort to build publishing capacities in the developing world. He worked in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, retiring as executive vice president in 1971.

Hal was married for 42 years to Barbara Quinn Munger, who died in 1984. His second wife, Dorothy Vietor Munger, and his third, Eleanor Sage Munger, also predeceased him. He is survived by his sons, Mark ’65 and Jeffrey ’73; three grandchildren; five stepchildren; and 11 step-grandchildren.