Houghton R. Hallock Jr. ’64

Howie died April 16, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

Howie’s father was an Army colonel (West Point ’37) who, with Howie’s pregnant mother, was stationed in Hawaii Dec. 7, 1941. After the Pearl Harbor attack, she returned to Berkeley, Calif., where Howie was born March 15, 1942. Howie grew up on various Army posts, including Okinawa and West Point. He prepped at The Hill School, where he ran track and was a National Merit Scholarship finalist.

At Princeton, Howie majored in history, ate at Tower, where he formed many lifelong friendships, ran the hurdles in track, and participated in Whig-Clio, the Orange Key Society, and the Trenton Tutorial Project. Following Princeton, he obtained a J.D. at Harvard in 1967 and then an MBA at NYU in 1973. After several years at a New York City law firm focusing on corporate and securities matters, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he joined the SEC and spent the remainder of his legal career serving as special counsel in the Office of Investment Company Regulations for 40 years. He reported that the enormous growth of the mutual fund industry during that period “resulted in an extremely interesting, challenging, and rewarding career for me”.

Howie is survived by brothers Geoffrey, Kenneth ’70, and James; several nieces and nephews; and his longtime companion, Jean Eckert, an artist. The class extends its condolences to them.