John N. Page ’31

Jack, Pen Reed, and Bill Botzow started school together at Carteret Academy in Orange, N.J., in 1917 and continued through graduation from Princeton. Jack and Pen roomed together at Princeton all four years.

Jack was a high-honors student at Princeton, active in cross country, and a member of Quadrangle Club. The son of Frederick Maxwell Page and Dorothy Mattson Page, he joined the National Newark & Essex Bank upon graduation and continued with it until his retirement as senior vice president and principal investment officer of Midlantic Banks, its successor. Jack was a director of Bishop Manufacturing Corp., U.S. Lines Inc., and the Financial Advisory Commission of Essex County, N.J. He was founder and president of the Princeton Alumni Association of Northern New Jersey and president of the Princeton Club of Southwest Florida.

He married Marguerite Simpson in 1936, and they had three children, John Jr., Carol Page Devore, and Frederick M.; and two grandchildren, Page Paterson and Carl Bauer. After the death of Marguerite, Jack married Margaret Whitehead, who also predeceased him. To all the family, the class sends its sincere condolences