John Francis Adams ’50

John Adams died Nov. 29, 1997, at the Tucson [Ariz.] Medical Center from complications resulting from a head injury. He was 70.

John prepared at the Catalina Island Boys School, where he was manager of the soccer team, editor of the school magazine, and a prefect. He spent 194446 as a sergeant in the Army, serving in the Aleutians.

At Princeton, John majored in architecture and was a member of Cannon Club. He earned his MA in architecture in 1952 from Stanford.

In an architectural career that spanned his entire working life, he worked for Edward Durell Stone and twice had his own firms, specializing in commercial office buildings and hospitals. Much of his spare time was spent in volunteer work, serving on a number of boards in his hometown of Pasadena, Calif.

After he retired in 1993, John moved to Tucson, where he pursued his many, varied interests. He was a firstclass wood carver, and among his works are a harp and a sixfoot Celtic cross, which stands in his garden. He was a lifelong coin collector with an interest in the halfcent, and an avid reader.

John is survived by his widow, Sheila, son Walter, daughter Carolyn Cole, and a granddaughter, Anne Cole, to whom the Class of '50 offers its sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1950