Henry Gardiner ’38

Henry Gardiner died May 27, 2014, at his home in Hightstown, N.J. Hank prepared for Princeton at the Hotchkiss School, where he was active in football and baseball and was a member of the student council.

At Princeton, he majored in art and archaeology, graduating with honors. He was on the freshman soccer and baseball teams and was art editor of the Pictorial his freshman year and a columnist for The Daily Princetonian his senior year. He was a member of Theatre Intime sophomore year and was in Triangle Club sophomore and junior years. Hank was   a 21 Club member and belonged to Cap and Gown. He roomed with J.D. Ewing, B.T. Rulon-Miller, and W.T. Galey III.

Hank was in the Air Force from 1942 to 1945. After World War II, he attended the Institute of Design in Chicago and worked in visual design in Aspen, Colo., from 1949 to 1953, and then at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in exhibition design from 1954 to 1978.

Hank is survived by two sons, Henry and John; and a niece, Margaret, to whom the class extends sincere sympathy.