Harry Poole ’62

Harry Poole III died Dec. 10, 2007, having suffered a stroke 10 years ago.

He graduated from Choate and entered Princeton with the Class of 1958. He took leave and entered the military, studying Russian at the Monterey Language Center. He served in West Germany as an interpreter in the late 1950s and joined our class in 1960. He majored in Romance languages and dined at Key and Seal.

After graduation Harry worked in New York City and San Francisco before heading to Aspen for five years. There he owned a restaurant and skied. He then earned an MBA from Georgia State University and joined Citizens and Southern Bank in 1970, specializing in employee benefits until his retirement in 1992.

With an avid interest in hunting, fishing, and skeet, Harry became a founding member of Millrock Gun Club. After losing his sight in one eye after his stroke, Harry kept reading and solving The New York Times Sunday crossword puzzles. He built a library of 1,000 books at his vacation home on Lake Nottley, Ga., intense as ever in his interests.

The class extends its condolences to his widow, Mabel Youmans Poole, and to his children, Harry Poole IV and Adrian Poole Bennett.