John Emery Seibert ’34

Lank Seibert, a retired oil executive, banking consultant, and star basketball player, died Mar. 4, 1997, after a long illness. A classmate said of him, "Lank was a thoroughly nice guy. Too bad he never married: he'd have been a wonderful husband and father."

A basketball hero at Pingry School, where in 1991 he was one of the first alumni to be inducted into its Athletic Hall of Fame, Lank became, with his good friend Ken Fairman, '34's only threeletter winner in basketball. In 1932 he scored 15 field goals in one game, a Princeton record that stood for 31 years until broken by Bill Bradley '65. In 1933 Lank won the B. Franklin Bunn Trophy, Princeton basketball's highest award.

Lank was an executive of Chevron Oil Co. from 1956 until he retired in 1975. He was a member of the board of and, later, a consultant to Franklin State Bank in Somerset, N.J. During WWII, he was a special agent in the Army's counterintelligence corps and a detachment commander. For many years he served as a director of the Visiting Nurse & Health Services of Elizabeth, N.J., and continued playing and coaching basketball until 1951. "Now," he wrote, "my favorite exercise is walking."

Lank leaves no immediate survivors. A longtime devoted friend and adviser up to the end was Dr. Jere W. Lord Jr. '32.

The Class of 1934