John Gaither Sullivan ’44

JOHN PASSED away at age 67 on Aug. 30, 1989, in the Harris Hospital, Sylva, N.C. His brother, Paul G. Sullivan '48, wrote of him, “John was a disabled veteran of WWII, thus his teaching career was effective but foreshortened. (Health forced him to retire in '64.) He loved trout fishing and lake fishing at the family cottage on Lake Champlain. He's buried in the family plot at Vergennes, Vt., overlooking the lake. He never married. John was an ‘ambulating lexicon’ and source of wonderful historic anecdotes, and my children knew him as a precise historian. He was very loyal to Princeton." God rest him.

John roomed alone. He was a member of Gateway. His major: modem languages--French and German. Back from war he graduated in '45 magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; received his M.A. from Stanford, of which he wrote, "an overstuffed university with a climate as cold and rainy as Old Nassau's was, only without duckboards." His doctorate in French led him through the Ecole Normale in Paris to Yale. He taught at Taft School and as a professor at the Univ. of South Carolina.

We send our deepest sympathies to Paul, of Scarsdale: a sister, Joan Wainright of Glenville, N.C.; his five nieces and nephews; cousins Dwight '46 and Roger '48. May there always be Sullivans at Princeton.