Howard Lincoln Klein ’39

Long a resident of West Hartford, Conn., Howie died at Hartford Hospital Aug. 7, 2001. Always a loyal Princetonian, he was a past president of the Princeton Assn. of Central Connecticut. His career began after Harvard Business School at Gleason Works, in Rochester, N.Y., as a machine-tool executive, a job that kept him traveling around the world. In 1966 he moved to West Hartford to work for the Pratt & Whitney Division of Colt Industries until 1970, when he joined Whitnon Spindle Co. of Farmington, retiring in 1984.

Having lettered on our varsity tennis team, he kept at it for years as a member of the Hartford Tennis Club. Until illness curtailed his activities he volunteered as a math tutor and in the English as a Second Language program, and he was an active member of Asylum Hill Congregational Church. Howie and Jean Jefferson were married in 1951. Jean recalls seating their son Keith, at the time aged five, on the Nassau Hall tigers, hoping he'd tilt in that direction. He did and graduated in 1975. Howie is also survived by daughters Catherine and Laura and by nine grandchildren. We extend to them our sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1939