John Hanlilton Thatcher Jr. ’30

JOHN THATCHER died in Santa Barbara, Calif., Sept. 10, 1990, after a sudden heart attack. He had moved to Santa Barbara from San Francisco in 1977 and was living in a retirement home there.

John came to Princeton from the Kansas City Country Day School. At Princeton he was a member of Theatre Intime, Triangle Club, Clio Hall, and Cap and Gown.

Following graduation, John joined the Standard Oil Co. of Calif. (Chevron) and spent his entire business career with that company, retiring 47 years later. In June 1941 he took a year off as a Sloan Fellow at the M.I.T. School of Business and earned an M.S. During the war he served as consultant to the war Production Board and for three years was executive secretary of the Petroleum Administration. At the time of his retirement he was president of three Chevron subsidiaries and assistant to the president of Chevron.

in the mid 1960s John was president of the Princeton Alumni Assn. of Northern Calif. for three years. He maintained a lively and generous interest in the geology dept. at Princeton, from which he had graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

He never married and is survived by a sister, Edith Hurd, and a brother, Nicholas G. '37. To them we extend our regret on the loss of this cherished friend.

The Class of 1930