James Margerunt Pardoe ’29

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JIM DIED Oct. 24, 1992. He prepared at Lawrenceville. At Princeton he was in the University orchestra, banjo club, band, and Triangle. He belonged to Arbor Inn. After a business start with Provident Mutual Life insurance, he became supervisor of instrumental music in the Hopewell Valley public schools, and stayed in that position for 32 years. He was a member of the Trenton Symphony Orchestra and Trenton Opera Assn. and was director of the State Street Methodist Sunday School Orchestra. He belonged to various teachers associations and to the National Music Educators Assn. In 1932 Jim married Teresa Evernham. She is deceased, and he is survived by three nephews, James, John, and William Fee, to whom the Class extends sincere sympathy.

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