John Alan Hisey Jr. ’23

WE LOST OUR ONE AND ONLY John Hisey when our senior classmate died Oct. 6,1990. He was born Oct. 31,1895, and died three weeks before his 95th birthday. He died of having lived his life to the last, a truly great citizen who cherished Princeton University. He wrote "I have traveled far and wide from Maine to Florida and coast to coast and have found, win or lose or draw, that Princeton is the one best place of all." John graduated from Penn Chatter School in Philadelphia. He served as a commissioned officer in WWI with the 168th Field Artillery. John's career could equal the Heinz 57 Varieties. He taught and coached baseball and track at Lawrenceville and Country Day School in Kansas City. He was an actor on the N.Y. stage and in 40 films in Hollywood, spent seven years in the advertising trade in N.Y. and Chicago, five years on Long Island in real estate, and his last seven years before retiring on Wall Street. In retirement be became a skillful and successful artist with 150plus oil paintings including a few of Prince. ton.

He leaves his widow, the former Frederica Miller, and a daughter, Joan, Mrs. Gustave J. Richter, who both live at Route 3, Box 370, Bedford NY 10506. Three grandchildren also survive.

The Class of 1923