John F. Maloney ’35

Jack died Feb. 14, 1997, of a heart attack at his home in Chappaqua, N.Y. Always energetic, he had played tennis the previous day.

After graduation Jack worked in George Gallup's fledgling consumer research company in Princeton. After WWII, Reader's Digest asked him to establish a research department, which he headed and continued to develop until he retired.

In 1940 Jack married Lucia McKellar of Louisville. He was commissioned a navy lieutenant just before Pearl Harbor, having been an early volunteer. He served on both destroyers and destroyer escorts and rose to lieutenant cmdr. in 1944. He later became commanding officer of the USS Wilke in the north Atlantic and Mediterranean. Great pride in his postwar reserve service led him to responsible positions in the Destroyer Escort Commanding Officers Assn. and their annual reunions.

Jack was continually involved in class affairs and served as president for five years. His enthusiasm, warmth, and dedication were also reflected in service to his community, as a builder of the Westchester County United Fund, founder of several health and welfare agencies, and president of business associations such as the New York chapter of the American Marketing Assn.

Jack and Lucia had four children, three of whom survive: daughter Bonnie, Jack Jr. '65, and Mac '67. The class, with a full sense of shared loss, extends its sympathy to them all.

The Class of 1935