Jerome T. Congleton Jr. ’37

Stalwart Princetonian Jerry Congleton died Oct. 30, 1995, of a heart attack, aggravated by diabetes. He left his wife, Ruth, son Jerry III, daughters, Betty Ferguson and Mary Tobin, and six grandchildren. As an undergraduate, he married Elizabeth Hodson, but they divorced in 1946.

At Taft Jerry was active in wrestling and track, the football manager, and a member of the student council. At Princeton he majored in politics, was the 150-pound football manager, and a member of Tiger.

Except for three years in the Army, Jerry was with Prudential Insurance Co. as a methods analyst for 40 years, mostly in Newark, but in Houston from 1952-57. He started out in the Army as a private and came out a 1st lt. with a Bronze Star. He went through five campaigns in Europe, including a taste of beer in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, where he was a general aide.

He quoted his father as saying, "You can lose everything in life, but once a Princeton man always a Princeton man; nobody can take that away from you ever." Our 47th-reunion chairman, he wrote, "A major reunion helps me realize what Princeton and all the wonderful people there have meant to me."

All our condolences go to the family.

The Class of 1937