James H. Lemon Jr. ’58

He came to Princeton from St. Albans School, where he was treasurer and prefect of his class and played football, basketball, and baseball. At Princeton, Jim was a member of both freshman and varsity baseball teams and a member of Quadrangle Club. He roomed with Art Moore. His father, James, was in the Class of 1925.

After graduation, Jim served as an intelligence officer in the Navy. In 1960, he became a research analyst at Eastman Dillon Union Securities & Co. in New York City.

He returned to Washington in 1963, became an assistant sales manager at Johnston, Lemon & Co., and ultimately became its chairman and CEO — a position he held for nearly 40 years. In 1980, Jim co-founded the Lemon Foundation, a private family foundation that supports charitable organizations, primarily in the Washington metropolitan area.

Jim married Lavinia Plumley in 1961 and they had two daughters, Lavinia and Ashley, and five grandchildren, Elizabeth Ashley Pitzer, Claire Madison Pitzer, James Lemon Pitzer, Fletcher Lemon Shaw, and George Fisher Shaw. His daughter Lavinia predeceased him. The class extends its deepest sympathy to them all.