Harry Albert Holland Jr. ’41

Harry died on Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, 2003. A California resident for 50 years, he was born in Chestnut Hill, Pa., and attended Chestnut Hill Academy and the Kent School.

On Princeton's freshman soccer and lacrosse teams, he played all three upperclass years on the varsity lacrosse team. Majoring in geology and a member of Colonial Club, Harry roomed variously with Bowring, Goodfellow, Huston, Longcope, Moss, Page, and Wainwright.

Immediately after graduation, Harry entered the Harvard MBA program, earning his degree before entering the Navy as an ensign in 1942.

Harry served four years in Aviation Ordnance, 16 months of which took him to the Pacific theater where he participated in the Admiralties and Philippines campaigns. He was discharged as a lieutenant in 1946.

Starting with Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., which moved him to SF, he then worked for Marsh & McLennan, New York Life, and finally the Zische Organization, retiring in 1977.

Moving to The Sequoias, a continuing-care community in SF, he met and married his second wife, Jean Smith, who predeceased him.

Surviving are his first wife, Sally Bubb Holland, mother of his four surviving sons, Harry III, John, Tom, and Robert; and his sister, Alice Jones.

The Class of 1941