James Van Talcott Norden ’46

Jim Van Norden died May 19, 1998, in Atlanta, after a stroke.

He prepared at the Browning School in NYC and at Princeton studied economics, earning an honors AB in 1948. He enjoyed baseball and football and belonged to Cap and Gown. In the Army Air Force as a second lieutenant from 1943-46, he flew numerous missions in the Pacific theater. He rose to major in the Army Reserves.

An investment banker, Jim was associated in the 1950s with Blythe and Co. and Eastman Dillon. He became president of the Wyott Corp. in Cheyenne, Wyo., in the 1960s, moving to Denver afterward in the oil industry. A lover of the outdoors, he later settled in California, running a fishing and skiing operation in June Lake in the Sierras until strokes forced a move to Atlanta.

Married first to Luanne Williamson in 1951, he divorced in 1961. In 1965 he married Janice Meyers and was again divorced in 1981. He is survived by a son, Andrew, and a daughter, Adrienne Van Norden Rogers, both of his first marriage; by two daughters of his second marriage, Cara Grace and ReaAnne Leicht; and by a brother, Montagnie '45. To them the class extends its sympathy.

The Class of 1946