James Edward Hooper Jr. ’42

JIM DIED unexpectedly, of a heart attack, on Dec. 24, 1992, at his home in Owings Mills, Md. He had retired, after 43 years with the family textile sales business, William E. Hooper & Sons Co., when it was sold in 1989. At the time of the sale, Jim was president of the company.

Jim joined the Class from Kent, where he had rowed on the crew that won the Henley Regatta in 1938. A chemistry major, he continued rowing at Princeton, in the varsity shell sophomore and junior years, and also was a member of Ivy Club.

At the end of junior year, he left us to spend four years in the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant commander. The next 15 years were spent in the field, learning the family business, before returning to the main office in Baltimore. In 1960, he bought a 200yearold property out in the country, the maintenance of which became a fulltime avocation, after retirement, for both Jim and his wife, Frances "Sis" (daughter of Philip G. Connell '06 and sister of Philip G ' Connell Jr.'43), who died in 1991. He served on the Valleys Planning Council (promoting good planning practices and preservation of open space in Baltimore County) and was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maryland.

A devoted Princetonian, Jim attended both the 50th and the minireunion in Charleston, S.C., in November. Sadly, he and Bill Matthews' widow, Joan, had planned to be married in Jan. 1993. To his two sons, Jim Jr. and Philip '75; to his five grandchildren; and to Joan Matthews; the Class extends its most sincere condolences.

The Class of 1942