John M. Bruce Jr. ’43

A clinical psychologist and teacher who headed the English Department at Boys’ Latin School in Baltimore for 24 years, Marsh died July 28, 2010, of heart failure at the Presbyterian Home of Maryland in Towson. He was 89.

Marsh was born in Baltimore and graduated from Gilman School, where he was active in debating, orchestra, and the tennis team. At Princeton he was in the Tiger Quartet Orchestra, did broadcasting for WPRU, joined Terrace Club, and majored in psychology. He completed graduate studies at Harvard, going on to become a research fellow in clinical psychology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

He taught at the Severn School near Annapolis, Md., St. Paul’s School in Brooklandville, Md., and The Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., before joining Boys’ Latin in Baltimore in 1960 as assistant headmaster and English-department chairman. He retired in 1986.

Marsh was an accomplished drummer and vibraphonist. He was unmarried, and his only survivor is his niece, Dancy Bruce Mills.