James E. Cameron Jr. ’65

Jim Cameron died of cancer Dec. 14, 2012, at the University Medical Center of Princeton in Plainsboro, N.J., the town he lived in for more than 40 years. He was attended by friends and his wife, Linda, a graduate of Westminster Choir College and St. Francis Medical Center School of Nursing in Trenton.

Born in Aurora, Colo., he came to us from Defiance (Ohio) High School. At Princeton, he majored in physics and sang in the Glee Club. He roomed with Doug Barton and Jim Heckman and took his meals at Cloister Inn.

Jim earned a master’s degree in physics from Columbia. After teaching math at Hackensack (N.J.) High School, he went into private industry and spent his career in the computer field, first at Wood and Tower in Princeton, then at AT&T in Piscataway, and finally back to Princeton to work for Bloomberg.

He was a member of the Princeton Art Museum, the New Jersey Audubon Society, Longwood Gardens, and the Gospel Fellowship Church of Plainsboro.

Jim is survived by Linda, three sisters, a brother,and several nieces and nephews. The class sends its condolences to Linda and the rest of his family on their loss.