John Henry Eisenhard Jr. ’38

John Eisenhard, a Virginia Weekly news editor for nearly 35 years before retiring in 1979 as managing editor of the Fauquier Democrat, died Jan. 18, 1999, at Fauquier Hospital after a heart attack. He lived in Warrenton. A native of Allentown, Pa., John attended Colgate, then transferred in his junior year to Princeton, where he majored in art and archaeology and joined Court Club.

During WWII, he was a writer-editor with the Farm Security Agency and the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Board and contributed to the Washington Post. From 1945-57 John and his wife, Antoinette, who predeceased him, were coeditors and copublishers of the Blue Ridge Herald. From 1957-60 John was managing editor of the Loudoun Times Mirror in Leesburg, then in 1961 of the Fauquier Democrat. In 1966 he received the Purcellville Preservation Distinguished Citizenship Award. At the award ceremony the mayor noted, "not only did John compile the history of Purcellville, he helped create it."

John was a member of the Goose Creek

Friends Meeting in Lincoln, Va. From 1971-74 he was on the schools committee of the Princeton Club of Washington, D.C. He is survived by two daughters, Rebecca Jordache and Rachel Cartwright-Paige, three grandchildren, and a great-grandchild, to all of whom the class extends its condolences.

The Class of 1938