John Nicoll Durrie ’34

John Durrie, who served six years as Princeton's assistant secretary under Alex Leitch '24 before becoming, in 1949, the first secretary of the Univ. of New Mex., died in Albuquerque Nov. 28, 1995. When he retired from UNM in 1977, he was cited as "a warm friend, good counselor, and trusted adviser to the administrators, faculty, regents, and students."

A steadfast Princetonian, John was president and secretary of the Princeton Club of Albuquerque and active in the HYP Club. He was on the area executive committee for the $53 million capital campaign in the early 1960s and worked regularly on Annual Giving. Once he pointedly paid his class dues with check No. 1934.

In 1942 John married Hope Pearsall, a 1937 Radcliffe graduate. In recent years he and Hope traveled in Canada and Alaska and took part in a birding expedition in Texas. They spent a month each summer in Rockport, Mass.

Besides Hope, John leaves a daughter, Patricia Brewer; a son, J. Nicoll Jr., and four grandchildren. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934