Henry C. Blackiston ’32

Harry Blackiston died Aug. 23, 2001, at the Osborne Home in Rye, N.Y.

Harry was a native of Virginia and graduated from Episcopal HS in Alexandria, Va., in 1928. While at Princeton, he was a member of Ivy Club and played on the 150-lb. football team and the university's first rugby team. He married Elizabeth Parker Nugent after graduation and went on to Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1935. After service in the Navy during WWII, Harry practiced law for more than 35 years in NYC, where he was a partner at Lord, Day & Lord. During this period he served as president of the Maritime Law Assn. of the U.S.

He retired in 1976 to Charlottesville, Va., where his wife died in 1980, and he remained there until he moved to Rye, N.Y., in 1999. Harry's passions included Princeton, fly-fishing, and writing. He was the author of several books, including a memoir of his Virginia boyhood, Those Happy Years, published in 1986 by the Princeton U. Press. He is survived by two sons, Henry '65 and Howland, as well as six grandchildren, to whom the class sends condolences.

The Class of 1932