James H. Pinckney IV ’37

Jim Pinckney, a banker, died May 8, 1996. He had retired to Massachusetts after having long been a Garden City, N.Y., resident. He was legally blind for the last few years. His wife of 53 years, Lenore, as well as a son, James Cotesworth, and a daughter, Dorothea Jane, survive. His sisterinlaw was Donna Baker, wife of '37's Chick Baker, both now deceased.

He prepared at Pawling, and at Princeton he majored in economics, was on the polo team, president of the Princeton Polo Assn., and a member of Charter.

After three years with Long Island Lighting as cadet engineer, and one year as liaison engineer with Fairchild Camera and Instrument as trainee, he received his active duty notice with the Army. After a tour of North Africa, he ended up playing an active part in the ChinaBurmaIndia theater and came out a major.

Starting off in 1946 he was in the installment loan department of Franklin Natl. Bank and from 195070 with the Long Island Trust Co. in Garden City. He retired in 1970 as v.p. and branch manager, moving to New England for photography, trap shooting, and martinis. In 1983 he wrote, "The years go by, and I'm begininng to creak." A grandniece, Elizabeth Borden, granddaughter of Richard Borden '38, is in the Class of '91.

With all our best wishes for the family.

The Class of 1937