Hugh J. Lynch Jr. ’34

HUGH JEROME LYNCH JR., retired lawyer and amateur tennis player, died Dec. 29, 1994, of cardiac arrest. Since 1949, he had lived in Bethesda, Md.

A cofounder of the firm Macleay & Lynch in Washington, Hub specialized in insurance and transportation law. He retired in 1977. In the 1930s and 1940s, he won six Middle Atlantic States Tennis Championships and a singles title in the District of Columbia. In 1959, he won the national seniors' clay-court doubles championship, and in 1961, with son Hub III '64, he won the national father-son doubles title, He won the Canadian national senior doubles in 1965 and the U.S. national senior platform doubles in 1972.

He recently wrote, "It has been a happy life, stemming principally from having married a wonderful girl and being a member of the Class of 1934." His wife of 57 years, Barbara (Bean), survives, as do a daughter, Patricia; four sons, Hugh, Thomas, John, and Robert; 12 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.