Harrison Dodge Howell Walker ’33

Toto, our Princeton track star, died at his home in Woollahra, Australia, Jan. 26, 2003. He was 92. After 39 years on the staff of National Geographic magazine, Toto retired in 1975 to the land of his wife, Sheila Gordon Anderson, the daughter of an Australian brigadier general. She predeceased Toto by several years.

After graduation, Toto set his cap for a job with National Geographic but was told he needed more experience. He spent the next three years bicycling around Europe; the stories he sent back won him a position. He covered assignments all over the globe. One time, in Australia on a project to study aboriginal culture, he was separated from his party, lost for several days, and was the object of a military search and rescue mission. His refinement caused him to be dubbed "the parfit gentil knight" by the magazine's staff, and the secretarial staff voted that they would most like to be on a desert island with him. After he retired, Albert Keidel's son and Tremaine Billings's grandson visited him. Toto had a magnificent white beard, and they found him entertaining and amusing. Though we saw little of him in his travels, we will miss his presence.

The Class of 1933