John Benjamin Dorrance Jr. ’34

Johnnie Dorrance, a retired expert in passenger service with the old Pennsylvania Railroad and director of its high-speed Washington-Philadelphia-New York (Northeast Corridor) project in the late 1960s, which introduced the operation of the Metroliner, died Mar. 10 after a long illness. Since 1989 John and his wife of 60 years, Frances "Sis" Denison Dorrance (William & Mary '35), who survives, lived at Meadowood, a retirement community in Worcester, Pa. His last days were spent in Meadowood's skilled nursing facility.

A devoted Princetonian, John was a candidate for class treas. in 1959 and helped locally with AG in the 1960s and 1970s. Not long ago he wrote, "I have enjoyed every hour of being retired. . . . Most of all, our life together and our growing family. All this and a Princeton education-I have so very much to be thankful for."

Surviving, besides Frances, are two daughters, Patti and Jane, and four grandchildren. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Cass of 1934