Hugh W. Jackson ’27

HUGH JACKSON died Jan. 28, 1992. He is an example ofa man who had a successful business career and enjoyed other phases of life which to a biographer, seem as much more exciting and colorful than they did to him. For ten years after Princeton, he managed affairs for New York Stock Exchange companies; and for a while before retiring, in 1953, he ran the Coral Gables office of a New York firm. He trained race horses, ran them on famous eastern U.S. tracks, and, in 1939, won the Arkansas Derby. He raced boats on Long Island Sound and off the Maine coast. During WWII Hugh's business acumen inspired him to sell his fine Green.wich, Conn., home and rush to Washington to direct the Orders and Regulations Bureau of the War Production Board from 1941 to 1945. The Red Cross cited him for his wartime help.

In retirement Hugh thoroughly relished his role as a socialite and sportsmanin golf, fishing, boating, and bridge. He was one of 1927's eminent clubmen, a member of the Riviera Country Club, the Rod and Reel Club of Coral Gables, the Wiamo and Wiamo Golf Clubs in Massachusetts, and the Princeton Clubs of Florida and New York ' He had a long and wide Princeton association, with at least seven relatives in classes from 1896 onward. All his children are collegebred: Jane H. (Smith '51), Isabel Anne (Wheaton '62), and Hugh W. Jr. (Lafayette '63). To them and to all his relatives, the Class sends its sympathy, in their bereavement.

The class of 1927