Harry Hamilton Hall Jr. ’48

The class lost a very brave man with the death of Harry "Bud" Hall April 18, 2005. After a lifetime of desperation, all the while struggling for family and personal survival, he died quietly while sitting in a chair in the sunshine at a local nursing home.

Harry came to Princeton in the V-12 program and graduated in 1947 with a bachelor's in SPIA. He conducted the University band and was a star on the golf team. Harry started out in the textile industry and it was all downhill. He sold insurance and automobiles before joining the Mercer County Park Commission. He cut golf-course grass before being transferred to managing the pro shop.

"In 1964 I became hospitalized for what appeared to be a nervous breakdown," Harry wrote in our 25-year book. "Throughout the next seven years I was hospitalized on at least seven occasions, all for the same illness. I seem to be quite well now with the help of lithium and I am diagnosed as a suspected manic-depressive." But Harry became more and more withdrawn, retiring from the park commission in 1987.

His beloved wife, Mary, predeceased him. Harry is survived by his dearly loved children, Harry III and Virginia, as well as three grandchildren.

The Class of 1948