John R. Martin ’60

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John died Nov. 21, 2002. At Princeton, he majored in politics, was on the Undergraduate Council, worked in the Campus Fund Drive and the SCA, and was a member of Orange Key. He was an active member of Dial Lodge. After graduation John earned an MBA from Columbia U. He was vice president for university personnel at Rutgers before he retired in 1989.

John was a founding member of the Rutgers Community Health Plan and served as the first president of its board of trustees. He was also on the boards of the Urban League of Greater New Brunswick, the Crossroads Theater Co. in New Brunswick, the Middlesex General Hospital (now Robert Wood Johnson Hospital), the National Society to Prevent Blindness, and the National Bank of New Jersey.

He is survived by sons David and Lawrence, a daughter, Julianne, a brother, William, and four grandchildren. To them, the class sends its condolences.

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