John Howley ’29

"Pop" Howley died on Sept. 1, 2000. He was 93. At Princeton, he was Phi Beta Kappa. He then attended Harvard law school, graduating in 1932, and was with the firm of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine until WWII, when he followed "Wild Bill" Donovan, senior partner of the firm, into the Office of Strategic Services (now the CIA), which Gen. Donovan headed throughout the war. After the war, together with Leonard Hall, who was later the Republican national chair, and William Casey, who later headed the Securities and Exchange Commission and the CIA, they formed the law firm of Hall, Casey, Dickler and Howley, a renowned law firm.

He retired to his farm in Milbrook, N.Y., but after several years of "deadly boring retirement" as he described it, he returned to the practice of law and guided his new firm to become the preeminent general practice firm in the Hudson Valley. He suffered a stroke several months after the death of his wife, Gertrude, in 1994, after 53 years of marriage. He served for years as a trustee of Bennett College and was a warden of St. Peter's Church in Lithgow, N.Y.

He is survived by a daughter, Jane Cannon, two grandchildren, Amanda Grauer and Jeffrey Grauer, and a brother, James. To all of them, the class extends its deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1929