Howard Gilbert Engler ’34

Howie Engler, founder of the Engler Instrument Co. in Jersey City, died May 13, 1999, in Ticonderoga, N.Y., near his summer home in Hague, on Lake George. He had been in failing health for several years.

The Engler Instrument Co., which Howie ran for 28 years with his younger brother before selling it in 1974, perfected an instrument, the "hubodometer," which facilitates accurate record-keeping for large truck fleets. During WWII, Howie, then an industrial engineer with Merck & Co., served two years with the new-developments division of the general staff in the Pentagon. "Went in as a colonel,'' he wrote, "and came out as one."

When he retired, in 1976, he wrote a classmate he hoped to be "loafing, boating, golfing, fishing, painting, sunning, surfing, etc. between Lake George, Short Hills, and Stuart, Fla.," where he spent winters.

Howie's wife, Dorothy "Dotty" Coleman (Swarthmore '34), whom he married in 1937, died in the early 1990s. He is survived by three sons., Peter G., G. Gilbert, and H. Jeffrey '72; a daughter, Elizabeth E. Barton; two sisters, Elinor Hibberd and Ruth Wallander; and 11 grandchildren. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934