Henry S. Bryant ’63

Hank, a missionary pastor and professor, died Aug. 8, 2014, in France after a nine-year battle with lung and bone cancer. Since 1971, he had lived in Grenoble, where he participated in the Christian student group on the university campus under the auspices of Crossworld, an international-missions agency. He also trained future leaders and penned Christian books in French.

At Princeton, Hank majored in basic engineering and graduated magna cum laude. He was president of the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship, and took his meals at the Woodrow Wilson Society. He then earned a degree at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, Ind.

In our 50th-reunion book, he wrote that his conversion to Christ at Princeton in 1958 (he originally was in the Class of ’62) was the crucial event of his life. In addition to teaching Christians, he loved to work with his hands and helped construct churches in France. He fashioned his own furniture and that of a close friend in Europe, Ron Furst ’63.

Alice, his wife of 47 years, said on the occasion of his death, “Hank is now with the Lord whom he loved so much and served so faithfully.” Also surviving are his daughter, Laura ’92; sons Daniel, Marc, and David; and 11 grandchildren