John H. Colyer ’62

John died Aug. 2, 2006.

John graduated from Oneonta (N.Y.) High School, lettering in three sports and joining the National Honor Society. He attended Princeton on a Procter & Gamble scholarship.

At Princeton he played freshman football and baseball. Illness prevented him from continuing to play sophomore year but he was active later in interclub sports for Cannon Club. Rooming in “The Gun’s” Rockefeller Suite, he was also on the Cannon’s bicker committee. John majored in politics.

After military service in Germany, John worked in the insurance industry in Chicago. He then moved to Los Angeles and worked for Hughes Aircraft before entering the executive-search business. John met his wife-to-be, Molly, at a 1982 Super Bowl party. They were married in 1989 beneath El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.

The couple settled in Pickerington, Ohio, in 1991, working together in the real-estate business. John was diagnosed with rectal cancer in 2001. Although he avidly continued golfing as long as possible, reading Civil War history and listening to music became driving forces in his final two years.

The class extends its sympathy to Molly and John’s mother, Mabel L. Colyer.