Henry Steeger ’25

HENRY STEEGER, publisher and civil rights leader, died at his home in Manhattan Dec. 25, 1990. In 1930 he founded Popular Publications, with "pulp" titles such as DIME DETECTIVE and G8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES, and successful "sticks" such as THEATRE ARTS and TENNIS U.S.A.

President of the National Urban League and author of YOU CAN REMAKE AMERICA, he served for decades on the boards of Wilberforce Univ., Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, and the Madison Square Boys' Club. He was president of the Natl. Foundation for Facial Reconstruction at N.Y.U. Medical Center, where a chair was endowed in his name in 1988.

Educated at Trinity and Horace Mann Schools in N.Y. and at the Univ. of Berlin, he was a Lt. Commander in the U.S.C.G. in WWII. Harry was an avid tournament tennis player all his life. An advisory counselor to Princeton's departments of sociology and anthropology, he was a Class officer, member of the Class Executive Committee, and editor of our 20th Reunion RECORD.

He is survived by his widow, Shirley; daughters Suzanne Hall and Nancy Jennings; and six grandchildren. His son, Hal Steeger '53, died in 1978.

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