John B. George ’49

John died Jan. 3, 2009, at the age of 90.

He prepared at Lakeview High School in Chicago, Ill., and came to Princeton after service in the Army infantry from 1941 until 1947. He served in the Pacific and the China-Burma-India theaters and held the rank of lieutenant colonel. At Princeton he majored in politics, graduated with highest honors, and won the Atwater Prize in politics. He was a member of Cottage Club.

After graduation, John spent four years at Oxford and then went to the British East Africa area to study the area and its institutions for four years. Returning to the United States he settled in the Washington, D.C., area as executive director of the Institute of African-American Relations. He later joined the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Institute as a consultant, lecturer, and writer on African affairs. He also wrote articles on big-game hunting and nonfiction adventure for several magazines including The Saturday Evening Post.

John is survived by his wife, Dorothea, to whom the class extends its deepest sympathy. As befits his service to his country he was interred at Arlington National Cemetery.