John McNaughton Myers ’27

Mac Myers, who died on Apr. 23, 1999, was a proverbial pillar of the community in his birthplace and hometown of Mercersburg, Pa., where he had prepared at Mercersburg Academy. His undergraduate years were interrupted by illness, but he graduated with a major in electrical engineering in 1928. After some years with Bell Telephone, he served in a civilian capacity with the Army Signal Corps during WWII and then returned to Mercersburg to take the reins of his father's prominent department store. He took on numerous civic responsibilities as mayor, as director or officer of the First Natl. Bank of Mercersburg, the Mercersburg Chamber of Commerce, the Mercersburg Development Assn., the Franklin County Children's Aid Society, and the James Buchanan Joint School District, and as a member of the Borough Council.

He served as elder, trustee, and Sunday School superintendent of the Presbyterian Church of Mercersburg, and was active in the Princeton Club of Harrisburg and the Tuscarora Area Community Theater. Mac's wife of 43 years died in 1976. The class extends its condolences to his survivors, who include two daughters, Mabel M. Pearce and Trudy M. Clark, four grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and numerous relatives in the Princeton family.

The Class of 1927