James A. Day ’62

Jim came to us from South Side High School in Rockville Centre, N.Y. He majored in history and ate at Campus Club. His senior-year roommates were Bill Richardson, Mike Olds, Bill Venable, Hunter Ware, and an exchange student from Zimbabwe, Andre Wawa. Jim played freshman basketball and returned to play and letter his senior year. Team captain Al Kaemmerlen remembers Jim as a decent, moral classmate and solid player. Involved in intramural volleyball and football, his “real playing” was on a piano and trombone. Jim’s Christian Science religion was important throughout his life.

After earning a master’s degree in history at NYU, Jim taught history and economics in St. Louis. Drafted into the Army in 1966, he assisted a chaplain in West Germany before returning to The Principia, an educational institution for Christian Scientists. Years later he taught at Ursuline Academy. Aside from teaching, he coached basketball, cross country, and track. Jim was still substituting as a high school teacher as recently as two years ago.

The class extends condolences to his wife, Mary Jane; four daughters, Kathryn, Mia, Michelle, and Anna; his sister, Estelle Black; and his extended family.