James Day Oneill ’42

Jim O'Neill died Oct. 9, 1995, in Rye, N.Y. He retired in 1985 from the Hospital for Special Surgery, in NYC, where he had served for many years as CFO.

Jim attended Harrison H.S. in Westchester County, before coming to Princeton. He majored in the humanities and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Court Club. During the war he served in the Navy as a lt. j.g. in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters.

After the war he attended Columbia Law School before joining the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad as assistant general counsel in Hartford. He also was finance counsel for the railroad in NYC before working for the Hospital for Special Surgery.

To his wife, Joyce; to his children, Anne, James Jr., and Joan; and to his three grandchildren, the class extends its most sincere condolences.

The Class of 1942