John Hibben Grier Scoon ’38

John Scoon, grandson of Princeton's 14th president, John G. Hibben, and son of Robert M. Scoon, chairman of the philosophy dept. in our day, died Apr. 4, 1995, of consequences of a fall in November.

John majored in philosophy, qualified for the no-course plan, and graduated with highest honors. For the next ten years, he was an editor with the presses of Princeton, the Univ. of Oklahoma, the Univ. of Chicago, and Henry Holt & Sons. In 1968, he joined the Foreign Service as cultural attache to the U.S. Information Agency, which took him to posts in Germany, Thailand, and Rangoon in Burma. In Burma, he visited remote country tribes, but left just before a coup that colored the country for decades. He returned to Washington in 1968, when he became asst. director of Univ. of New Mexico Press.

After retiring in 1971, he helped found the Princeton Club of Vermont and participated in alumni and library activities.

He is survived by daughters, Marion Foster and Joan Losacano; sons, Maxwell and John Jr. His marriage to Annabelle Rouse in 1943 ended in divorce in 1971. He was a loyal supporter of the class. We shall miss him greatly.

The Class of 1938