Henri C. Veit ’46

Harry Veit was one of ’46’s internationally oriented classmates. Born in Paris, he was a grandson of a renowned French painter, Maurice Bompard. Following service in the Navy during World War II and subsequently returning to campus to complete engineering studies, he was dispatched by U.S. Steel Corp. for work first in Lima, Peru, and then in London.

By 1971, however, he was back in the United States and serving a two-year stint as head of information-desk services at the Brooklyn Public Library. Then, from 1979 to 1985, he was the library’s head of the History, Biography, and Religion Division.

When he died June 23, 2012, Harry was making his home in Hadlyme, Conn. He was survived by his brothers, Richard B. and Alexander E. Veit. The warm sympathy of ’46 goes out to them.