James Bulkley ’49

James Bulkley died March 13, 2012, at his home in Aspen, Colo.

Jim was born in Detroit Aug. 17, 1927. He graduated from Millbrook School. War and the Navy interrupted his education twice — once near the end of World War II and later in the midst of law school, when he served as an intelligence officer at the Pentagon. At Princeton he majored in history, belonged to the Mountaineering and Yachting clubs, and joined Quadrangle. He received a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1955.

By 1965 he and his wife, the former Katherine MacKenty Bryan, known as “Kit,” whom he had met in her hometown of Princeton, had discovered Aspen. They moved there that year, and Jim was admitted to the Colorado bar. He became active in many community affairs, especially as president of the board of the Aspen Valley Hospital. He played a key role in building a new hospital that opened in 1977. Jim loved to sail, garden, and work on construction projects.

To Kit and their children, James Bryan Flint and Katherine Gilman Bulkley, the class sends its deepest sympathy.