John Ives Hartman Jr. ’41

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Jack died on Aug. 7, 2000.

A member of the Andover contingent, he was a politics major, won the New York Herald Prize, and graduated with highest honors.

After midshipmen school, Jack was assigned to bomb disposal work with service in England and the China-Burma-India theater. He was appointed head instructor of the U.S.N. Bomb Disposal School in Washington, DC.

A 1948 graduate of the U. of Pennsylvania law school, he returned to his lifelong home, Lancaster, Pa. When he died, he was still active as senior partner of Hartman, Underhill and Brubaker, and was always very deeply involved in many aspects of the Lancaster community.

Surviving are his wife, Phyllis Eshelman Quinn, son Thomas, stepchildren Barbara Shea, Constance Page, Christopher Quinn, and seven grandchildren.

The Class of 1941

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