Harris S. Colt ’57

Harris died June 25, 2004, after a battle with cancer.

He was born in New York City and prepared for Princeton at the Fay School. He majored in European Civilization with an emphasis on French, joined Key and Seal, and enjoyed hockey, soccer, debate, and crew.

After Princeton, Harris spent two years in the Army, then commenced his Wall Street career, first at J.P. Morgan, then Dean Witter and Auerbach Pollok & Richardson. He left Wall Street in the 1970s.

His great love was military history, and in 1976 he and his second wife, Margaretta, opened The Military Bookman, a New York store specializing in military books and all kinds of items related to the military. (He read Napoleon in French and one of his teachers referred to him as the "Clausewitz of his class.") The store closed in 2001.

A warm and intense person, Harris had an open mind and an open heart, many friends, and many interests including Malta stamps, woodstripping, and the Second Regiment in the Shenandoah Valley campaign.

Our class extends its sincere sympathy to Margaretta, son Alexander, and daughter Rossy. He will be missed.

The Class of 1957