Hugh G. Petersen Jr. ’44

Hugh died Apr. 29, 2003, in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where he lived after retiring in 1986.

Coming from New Trier HS, Winnetka, Ill., he majored in politics at Princeton, where he was active in polo, Bric-a-Brac, and Tower Club. He roomed with Aird Ardrey, Jim Bell, Frank Gentes, Jim Affleck, and Hud Stoddard in '01 Hall. Earning his degree in 1943, he spent more than two years in the Army, and was discharged as a first lieutenant from the Mountain Division in Italy.

In 1948 he married Nancy Wrenn and began his business career in Hawaii with Hawaiian Pineapple. He came east to work in investment banking with Hemphill, Noyes, and later became a partner at Montgomery, Scott & Co. In Greenwich, Conn., where he lived prior to retirement, he was a member of the Round Hill Club and the Field Club.

He is survived by his second wife, Sonia Davidson of Cuernavaca; four children from his first marriage, Hugh II, Suzanne, Montague, and Alexander; and four grandchildren, to whom his classmates tender their regrets.

The Class of 1944