Harris Bates Stewart Jr. ’45

"Stew" died Apr. 25, 2000, after a battle with cancer. He entered Princeton from Exeter. His Princeton connections include his grandfather, George 1876, his father, Harry B. '03, his uncle, Weir '15, and his cousin, Weir Jr. '45. Stew's Princeton studies were interrupted by service as a first lt. with the Fifth Army Air Force in the Pacific, seeing combat over New Guinea and the Philippines. After graduation in 1948 with a geology degree, Stew became an English teacher at Hotchkiss. He then joined the US Coast and Geodetic Survey, where he became one of the foremost oceanographers in the world. Stew began his publication success with The Global Sea and Deep Challenge, both of which gave a lay explanation of oceanography. Stew also published Id of the Squid, No Dinosaurs in the Ark, Grungy George, Sloppy Sally, and Injections of Hospital Humor. His crowning publication was a collection of oceanographic essays published last year, The Unpredictable Mistress. In the 1980s, Stew retired from government to become director of the Center for Marine Studies at Old Dominion U. In 1959 Stew married Elise Cunningham, who died from cancer in 1988. Subsequently, Stew married Louise Conant Thompson, sister of Dodie Carothers, wife of classmate Stuart. Louise preceded Stew in death by four weeks.

Stew is survived by daughter Dorothy Barrett, son Harry, sister Ann Birch, brother John, and four grandchildren.

The Class of 1945