John Leake Propst ’35

On Feb. 13, 1996, we lost another distinguished classmate with the death from cancer of Jack Propst. Born in 1914, Jack came to Princeton from South Carolina, majoring in history. Jack found time for extra curricular activities of baseball, Theatre Intime, Triangle Club, and the '35 prom committee. He belonged to Campus Club and roomed with Ray Vilsack and Don O'Meara.

Rooming with Ray Vilsack led to Jack's happy marriage in 1941 to Ray's sister Marge, and to his transplantation to Pittsburgh, where he became, according to the obituary in the Pittsburgh PostGazette, a Southern transplant devoted to Pittsburgh. Jack started his business career as a trust officer with Mellon Bank, obtained a law degree from Duquesne Univ., served as a naval lieutenant in Trinidad, and received an honorary LLD from Duquesne in 1970. He retired from Mellon in 1977 as a senior v.p. but continued to pursue his career in law. Jack did schools and scholarship work for Princeton, and was prominent in urban renewal and many other community activities.

Marge and Jack were proud parents of four daughters, Pamela Campbell, Meg Bernard, Terry MacPhail, and Suzanne Honeycutt, who among them have six grandchildren. The class sends its most sincere condolences to a fine Princeton family

The Class of 1935