James Carey ’29

JIM died in Princeton July 24, 1990. He prepared for college at Carteret and Hotchkiss. At Princeton he won numerals in hockey and track. He was on the Prom Committee, student council, and secretary of the Philadelphian Society. He was in Ivy and was its manager.

But of course what most of remember is his outstanding leadership of our Class, as V.P. and president in our undergraduate years and president for a total of 15 years in our alumni period.

Jim's banking career started with Seaboard, but in 1931 he went to the Bank of N.Y. He became V.P. of the Bank of N.Y. and stayed there until retirement in 1969. He had been a resident of Princeton for more than fifty years. He was a vestryman of Trinity Church, secretary of the Procter Fund, board president of Princeton Country Day School, on the board of the Princeton Y.M.C.A., Princeton Hospital, Recording for the Blind, and was board chair of Seeing Eye.

His first wife, the former Elizabeth Lees Smith, died in 1947. His second wife, the former Deborah Locke Livingston, survives, as do his sons, George and James Jr., and his daughter, Nancy Bicknell. The Class extends sincere sympathy to Jim's family.

The Class of 1929