Howard Carson Blake ’24

Howard C. Blake died May 20, 1996. He was 92. He was born in St. Louis, Mo. He prepared at Lawrenceville. While at Princeton, Howard met Frank Buchman, founder of the Oxford Group, which later become Moral Re-Armament (MRA). He studied at Princeton Theological Seminary and Mansfield College in Oxford.

Howard spent 32 years with MRA in Scandinavia. In Denmark he helped build a team that later played a key role in the resistance movement against Hitler.

In 1960 Howard began serving as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Weslaco, Tex. Among his many accomplishments were the conferences he organized and his writings, including a book titled Way To Go: Adventures in Search of God's Will.

He married Margaret "Peggy" Stewardson of Philadelphia in 1929, and they had three children: Alice Blake Chaffee, Peter Carson B., and the late John H. of the U.S. Marine Corps. Peggy died in 1982, and in 1988 Howard married Margaret "Migs" Rickert, of Washington, D.C. Migs survives, as do his daughters, and four grandsons.

The Class of 1924