James Watt Laughlin ’34

Jim Laughlin, a former foreign exchange specialist and foreign financial analyst with E.I. du Pont de Nemours, in Wilmington, Del., died Feb. 9, 2001. For the past decade he lived near Syracuse, to be near his daughter and her family.

One of the "highlights" of his life, Jim once wrote, was "participation in an interest of both my children," namely, competitive swimming. He formerly represented the Wilmington Swim Club as a member of the Philadelphia Swimming Directors Society and the AAU. Jim was also an active hiker in retirement and joined the Wilmington Trail Club on trips to England and Wales to the Mosel Valley, the Black Forest, the Tirol, and the Vienna Woods, in Europe.

Jim's wife, Grace Covey, a 1933 graduate of Middlebury, died in 1980 of cancer. Surviving are his daughter, Rebecca Jackson-Laughlin, a son, Jay B., and four grandchildren.

The Class of 1934