John G. Kellogg ’32

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Jack died Feb. 7, 2008, at the University Medical Center at Princeton, following an automobile accident in nearby Kingston.

Born in Milwaukee, Jack came to Princeton from St. Paul’s School. At Princeton he majored in politics, played lacrosse and took his meals at Quadrangle Club. Senior year he roomed with Anderson Hewitt. He was especially close to classmates Laurance Rockefeller and Jimmy Stewart.

Jack spent his entire career in the family business, the Square D Co., working and living in Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Dallas. Following his retirement in 1967, he moved to the Princeton area and embarked on his new career — serving the University and his class. He served the class as class agent, president, and, beginning in 1992, as its secretary. His many services to the University were recognized with various awards over the years. For decades, it seemed, the P-rade wasn’t really the P-rade until Jack marched jauntily past in his orange cowboy hat.

Preceded in death by his first wife, Anne Dumont, Jack married Babs Covey, a ’39 widow, in 1987. He is survived by her, his two daughters, a stepson, four grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. The class joins them in mourning this great man of Princeton and 1932.

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