John I. Blue ’48

John died Feb. 26, 2018, in Kingswood, Texas, at 91.

He was born Oct. 26, 1926, in San Antonio, Texas. He matriculated at Princeton in the summer of 1944, roomed in Hamilton, majored in history, and “had a ball with Buzzer Hall, Carlos Baker, and my other friends.”

He left Princeton after junior year. John had Army service stateside and in Korea, and graduated in 1954 from Southern Methodist University. He also was in the Army’s Japanese Language Program at the University of Minnesota, and studied law for a year.

John’s business career was in commercial real estate, oil-production financing, and insurance. He retired in 1993. A longtime resident of Dallas, Texas, he was active in the Scottish Society and St. Andrew’s Society.

Our 50th-reunion book notes that he and his wife, Hazel, had six children — John Jr., Ann Weisinger, Charles, Mary, Bill, and James — and, as of 1998, were the grandparents of five.