John K. Foster ’31

Johnny was born Sept. 7, 1909, in Pittsburgh and died on Mar. 20, 2001, at his retirement home on Hilton Head Island, S.C., at the age of 91.

He attended Shadyside Academy before coming to Princeton, where he was on the freshman track squad, class football team, boxing team, and a member of Quadrangle Club. Following graduation he went to the U. of Pittsburgh and earned an LLB degree in 1934. He became an assistant trust officer in the Colonial Trust Co. Two years later he joined the Shenango Furnace Co. as treasurer and eventually became executive vice president. He retired in 1974.

From 1950-51, Johnny was president of the Princeton Alumni Assn. of Western Pennsylvania. He belonged to the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Club of Pittsburgh, the Dusquesne Club, the Allegheny Country Club, and the Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier. He was also a trustee of Thiel College, a director of Fansteel, Inc., of North Chicago, and a treasurer of the Borough of Sewickley Heights.

Johnny was formerly married to Anne A. Rose and Lucy Williams, both deceased, and is survived by one sister, Elizabeth F. Shoyer, two sons, John K. and Donald R., five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. The class extends its deepest sympathy to the entire family.

The Class of 1931