James Lord Lewis ’57

Jim died July 11, 2017. He was 82.

At Princeton he majored in chemistry, joined Cloister, and roomed with George Scheele and Dave Taylor.

In 1960 he earned a master’s degree in chemistry at Dartmouth. While there, he met his wife, Joyce “J.P.” Paine, who was in nurse’s training at nearby Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. He spent another graduate year at Penn State, but decided to change to the study of law. Working as a chemist at Shawinigan Resins in Springfield, Mass., he enrolled in evening law school.

He earned his law degree from Western New England College, was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1967, and was employed as a chemical patent attorney at Monsanto in Springfield. In 1971, he took a position at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, N.Y., and remained there for 20 years. He took early retirement and moved to the Washington, D.C., area, where he served as of counsel for several law firms.

Throughout his life, Jim brought his experiences at Princeton alive for his family. He returned annually to march in the P-rade and was honored to serve on the Princeton Schools Committee.

Jim enjoyed music, playing the clarinet with The Free and Easy Band. He was also a member of the Talbot (Md.) Country Club while living in the Washington, D.C., area. Jim faithfully attended Christ Episcopal Church in Easton, Md., where he was a lay eucharistic minister for many years.

Jim is survived by his wife, daughters Amy and Ivy, six grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter.