Jack K. Busby ’38

Jack died Oct. 24, 2014, in Pinehurst, N.C.

He prepared at Hotchkiss School. At Princeton he majored in history and roomed at 19 University Place with Powers freshman year. Sophomore and junior years he lived at 172 Little with Powers and Glenn, and lived there again senior year with Powers, Glenn, and Starr. He graduated magna cum laude and attended Yale Law School.

During World War II, Jack served on destroyers in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. He resumed his pre-war employment with Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett in New York until 1951, when he was appointed general counsel of Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. He became president of PP&L in 1957, subsequently also taking on the role as CEO and chairman until he retired in 1979.

Jack served for several years as a member and chairman of the Pennsylvania State Planning Board and on a number of community and corporate boards in the Lehigh Valley, including Cedar Crest College, Sacred Heart Hospital, and United Way of Lehigh County. He was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. In 1979 he was Electric Light & Power’s “Utility Man of the Year” and was awarded the gold medal by the Pennsylvania Society.

He is survived by two children, Leonard and Louise; three grandchildren; and one great-grandson.