John E. Zacharias ’36

John died June 23, 2006, in Gladwyne, Pa. He was 90.

He entered Princeton from Newark Academy. At Princeton he majored in economics and was manager of the freshman and varsity swimming teams. He was a member of Dial Lodge.

John was a graduate student at New York University School of Business Administration, studied at NYU Law School, worked at U.S. Trust Co. of New York, and served in the Navy in the central Pacific and Marshall Island areas, where he was awarded two Bronze Stars.

After the war he was an executive at the Whitehall and Jamieson pharmaceutical companies and McKesson & Robbins Co., where he was responsible for McKesson Chemical, a major operating unit.

In 1946 he married Muriel Eckes, a graduate of Swarthmore College and Yale Law School. A longtime resident of Wilton, Conn., he was active in community affairs, including serving as treasurer of the Wilton Library. He was class agent for the Class of 1936.

Muriel predeceased John. He is survived by a son, Thomas E. Zacharias ’76; a daughter, Jane Z. Baker; and five grandchildren.

The Class of 1936