James Andrew Moffett II ’29

JIM DIED Mar. 5, 1990. After graduation he worked for seven years with Standard Oil, and then went to Com Products Refining Co. At his retirement from the company in 1959 he was president of Com Products Intl. He then devoted his time to the presidency of the Whitehall Foundation in Palm Beach, his continuing association with the biology dept. at Princeton, and other good works.

From 1933 until the war, Jim was in an organized division of the U.S. Naval Reserve. He entered the Navy as an ensign and left as a It. commander. Besides biology, his hobbies included golf and sailing. He belonged to the Racquet & Tennis Club and Downtown Assn. in N.Y., and the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Jim was married and divorced, and his three children survive: Holly (Mrs. Harry Brooks w'35), Melissa (Mrs. J. Wright Rumbough Jr.), and George M. IL One of his grandchildren is Howard B. Lowell '76. Jim's family has been very generous to Princeton. The estate of his father, George M. Moffett '04, was the donor of the professorship in the biology dept. bearing his name; and both Jim and the familysponsored Whitehall Foundation were among the donors of the George M. Moffett laboratories. The Class extends sincere sympathy to Jim's family.

The Class of 1929