Harvey Edward Mole ’29

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Harve was born Apr. 20, 1908, in Paris and died Dec. 17, 1999, in Chatham Township, N.J.

He prepared for Princeton at the Lawrenceville School. At Princeton, he was on the 150-pound crew, Inter-Club Committee, Varsity Club, and pres. of Cloister Inn.

Following Princeton, he received an MBA from Harvard business school in 1931. He was a financier with US Steel and the Carnegie Pension Fund, where he was pres. from 1950 until he retired in 1973. He was a director of several companies and a governor of the Baltusrol Golf Club. Among his clubs was the Princeton Club of New York. His public service included being a member of the board of education of Summit, N.J., a trustee of The Kent Place School, a life trustee and trustee emeritus of Princeton University. He had been a class treas., v.p. and pres.

He is survived by a daughter, Elaine M. Taggart, and two sons, Harvey III and Matthew C., as well as eight grandchildren, including Nancy T. Hegarty '87, and three great-grandchildren. To all of them, the class extends its deep sympathy and shares the loss of this fine gentleman.

The Class of 1929

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