John Barwick ’45

Jack was born in Jerusalem to John W. Barwick and Laura Hershey, who were working for the World YMCA Education Program.

Jack attended Northfield Mount Hermon and then Princeton, where he was a member of Cloister Inn. His college years were interrupted by World War II. He recounted his Navy experiences in My War, published in 2011. After the war Jack graduated summa cum laude.

Jack attended the London School of Economics from 1947-1948. He worked with the YMCA and the State Department’s International Relief Organization, helping displaced persons in Europe, an interval he described in another book, Picking Up the Pieces, published in 2012.

Jack married JoAnn Ridgeway and they had two children, John and Alison. They divorced in 1978, and he later married Ilse Hubrich. Ilse died in 2010.

He founded and was CEO of Performax, a corporate-training company based in Westport, Conn., until moving to Waterbury in 1994, where he and his son, John, bought the Old Stagecoach Inn.

Jack died July 27, 2017. His sister Betty predeceased him. John is survived by son John; daughter Alison; two stepdaughters, Karen and Sharon; two brothers, Peter and James; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.