Jack Larsen ’42 *45

Jack Larsen, father of 12, progressively a physicist, engineering administrator, patent lawyer, and educator, died at home in Des Plaines, Ill., Aug. 2, 2003, from Parkinson's complications.

He prepared at Tecumseh [Mich.] HS. At Princeton, he graduated with high honors in physics, was a member of Gateway Club and, in his first career, was a physics department instructor and group leader in a radio telemetry project. A pioneer in guided-missile electronics after a "hitch in the Army" and a master's in mathematics from Michi-gan, he began his second career as a government engineering administrator, working on the USS Nautilus and the original Polaris missile team. For his contributions, he received the Presidential Certificate of Merit and Navy Meritorious Civil Service Award.

After earning JD and LLM degrees from George Washington U., he began a career in patent law at Bell Telephone Laboratories. By our 25th, Jack had entered his fourth career teaching patent, trademark, copyright, and aerospace law at Suffolk U.

Jack and Rosemary, his wife of 56 years, truly enjoyed raising their family, as was evident from grandson Mike Dwyer's moving eulogy at Jack's memorial service. To Rosemary, her four daughters, eight sons, and 20 grandchildren, the class extends its deepest condolences for the loss of a remarkable classmate.

The Class of 1942