John D. Stewart ’37

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Eminent national affairs editor, ardent reuner, and king of the chafing dish, Johnnie Stewart died July 1, 1998. He left his wife, Margret (Helen died in 1964), daughters Leigh Estabrook and Susan Stockard (whose husband is James '64), seven grandchildren, and one great-grandson.

At Exeter he was on the baseball team and a member of the debating society. At Princeton he majored in economics and was a member of the band and Key and Seal.

Johnnie started off as an associate instructor at Princeton, then worked for the Bureau of Natl. Affairs starting in June 1939. It became an independent company in 1947; Johnnie became president in 1964. He described his life as a comfortable, enjoyable rut, which being chairman of tripartite committees to set minimum wages in American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico, and president of the Washington chapter of the Industrial Relations Research Assn. By 1984 he retired to southern Maryland but retained an office; he was what he called a computer-programming nut. In 1996 he wrote Making Employee Ownership Work: Lessons from BNA's First 50 Years and Aesop's Fables. His family established a John D. Stewart Memorial Fund with contributions to go to the '37 Fund and to support environmental research.

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