Hugh D. Wise Jr. ’32

Hugh died peacefully at home Aug. 3, 2003. He attended St. Alban's School in DC, graduated from Princeton with high honors in 1932, then earned a master's from Princeton, and a degree from Yale Law School.

At Princeton he was on the lacrosse and soccer squads, and a member of St. Paul's Society Interclub Committee, ROTC officers' club, class memorial committee, class executive committee, and Court Club.

He worked for the SEC until joining the Army in 1940, ending his service in 1945 as a colonel. He was awarded the Army's Legion of Merit, the Croix de Guerre with Star by France, and the Croix de Guerre with Star and the Order of Leopold by Belgium. After the war he returned to the SEC for a year, then served as general counsel to the House of Representatives Select Committee to investigate disposition of surplus property. He next went into private practice with Pitney, Hardin, Ward and Brennan in Newark. In 1949, he founded the Princeton law firm of Smith, Stratton & Wise, which is now Smith, Stratton, Wise, Heher & Brennan.

His wife, Cynthia, died in 1990. He is survived by three children, daughters Douglas Anne Wyble and Nancy Larson; his son, Hugh D. Wise III '64; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren, to whom the class sends its deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1932