John A. Lagrua Jr. ’52

John took a detour through Columbia after graduating from Bayside (N.Y.) High School and entered Princeton during sophomore year. He joined Tiger Inn and worked on the class memorial insurance fund — prefiguring his career in finance. He was in the Catholic Club and worked as a research assistant at the Forrestal Research Center.

John died Oct. 4, 2014, in New York, his longtime and much-relished home. In his entry for the Book of Our History, John reported working on Wall Street and becoming president of a foreign-affiliated investment bank, which involved much travel on European assignments. After retiring from the bank, he took up consulting, over the course of which he taught a class on capital markets in St. Petersburg that he recalled with pleasure.