James Clark King ’36

Jimmie died Jan. 12, 2000. He prepared at Mercersburg Academy. At Princeton, he studied mechanical engineering and was on the executive committee of Dial Lodge. He left Princeton in June 1934 and attended the then Carnegie Institute of Technology.

He was associated with the Gulf Oil and the Koppers Co. before joining the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, where he spent most of his career in sales, before it was taken over by Ling-Temco-Vaught. He retired in 1970.

During WWII, he was assigned, in 1943, to the combat engineers in the southern Pacific theater. He was next sent to Brisbane, Australia, to study counter intelligence, and was transferred to the 40th Infantry Division as a special agent for the War Department. His duties took him to New Guinea, New Britain, Luzon, and the Southern Philippines, ending up in Korea. He was honorably discharged in Dec. 1945, after being awarded four Battle Stars.

He and his wife, Lois Russell King, whom he married in 1973, moved, in 1974, to San Clemente, Calif, to enjoy the "World's Best Climate," where he could play golf 350 days a year! Lois and daughter Carol L. Daly survive him.