James Crawford Ward Jr. ’55

Jay Ward died Sept. 28, 2000, after a brief battle with liver cancer. He was reared in Nashville and attended the Middlesex School.

At Princeton he majored in politics, joined Cottage Club, and was varsity football manager.

Jay's career in Nashville involved the trading and selling of municipal bonds for 30 years with his own firm and then, on its sale, as senior officer of its successor, Hilliard, Lyons, Inc. He was nationally known and respected within the "muni" fraternity.

Honorary pallbearers included David Amory, Jim Bradford, Beck Fisher, Dan Lane, Peter Millard, and John Sienkiewicz. Among Jay's roommates and lifelong friends was the late Jim Johnson of St. Louis. Jay's popularity among classmates was surpassed only by his devotion to Princeton and his zest for life.

Jay, who was once divorced and once widowed, married Caroline Hilton 12 years ago. In addition to Carol, survivors include three children, two stepchildren, four grandchildren, five siblings, and two brothers-in-law, Hugh J. Morgan Jr. '50 and Robert C. Hilton '59.

The class extends its deepest sympathy to all of them. It is a great loss much too soon.

The Class of 1955