Henry Samuel Julier II ’45

Sam died Sept. 15, 2018, peacefully at home in Concord, Mass., two years after learning that melanoma had metastasized to his lungs.

Sam was raised in Chappaqua, N.Y., and attended Kent School before following his father, Henry Vaillant Julier 1904, to Princeton, after tailgating at many football games as a child. He served stateside in the Army Air Corps during World War II and was discharged as a corporal. Back at Princeton Sam majored in economics and was a member of Cap and Gown.

Sam went to work for Bulkley Dunton in New York City, where he would spend the next 43 years in various capacities in New York, Baltimore, and Boston for what became one of the largest paper-distribution companies east of the Mississippi. In 1969 he moved to the Boston office. He retired from the company as president and chief executive officer in 1990.

Sam was married to his neighbor from Chappaqua, Betsy Montross, for 64 years, and together they lived in Armonk, N.Y., and Baltimore before moving to Concord in 1969. They enjoyed playing golf on courses all over this country, on People to People trips to Europe, New Zealand, and Australia, and with Concord friends in Ireland and the United Kingdom. They also enjoyed winters for 30 years at their home at Harbour Ridge Country Club in Palm City, Fla. Sam was a member of the Concord Country Club and, as a member of Trinity Church in Concord, volunteered in retirement at the soup kitchen in Boston.

Sam is survived by his wife, Betsy; son and daughter-in-law Sam and Jennifer Julier; daughter and son-in-law Billie and Alec Wyeth; four grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and his sister and brother-in-law, Val and Tuck Orbison.