John Merrithew Allen ’34

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Jack Allen, a prominent resident of Searsport, Maine, for some 20 years after his retirement, died in his sleep May 19, 1999, after a long illness. In Searsport, the birthplace of both his parents, he was an honorary trustee of the Penobscot Marine Museum, a past trustee, deacon, and choir member of the First Congregational Church, and a member of the St. Andrew's Society of Maine.

During WWII, Jack served with Patton's Third Army in the campaigns of Northern France, the Rhineland, and Central Europe, earning the Bronze Star and the American Defense Ribbon with four Battle Stars. There followed jobs in Duluth, Minn., his wife's hometown; Elmira, N.Y., and back to the East (he grew up in the Oranges in New Jersey), where he worked 17 years in sales for Republic Steel.

In retirement Jack and his wife, Barbara "Barb" (Liscomb), a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill whom he married in 1942 and who died in 1996, enjoyed frequent travels. They cruised through the Panama Canal ("an experience not to be missed," he wrote a classmate) and spent five weeks in Arizona (where they visited Walt Thomas and his wife, Edith, now deceased, in Green Valley).

Surviving are three sons, Charles L. "Cy", John M. Jr., and William V. "Van", six grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934

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