John Craven Gorman ’39

Sitting at home on Jan. 13, 2002, John died of heart failure. He and Leni were settled in their winter home in Naples, Fla., and looking forward to seeing old friends passing through. John spent 37 years with American Tobacco Co. in different subsidiaries around the world. His career fed his love of travel and let him indulge his eye for art and architecture. A major project was restoring a 13th-century castle in Ireland, a home he knew as Doonagore. That name belongs to the 1739 silver cup John gave the university as the symbol of the annual Class of 1939 Princeton Scholar Award, permanently displayed in the Office of the Dean of the College. Leni and John were married in the Princeton Chapel in 1976. Besides Leni, John leaves two stepchildren, Lizette Harper '78 and Gregory Harper, five grandchildren, and his two brothers, Tom Gorman '40 and Patrick. We join them in gratitude for the generous life he lived.

The Class of 1939