John Richard Steves ’29

Jack Steves died on May 25, 1997.

Following his graduation in chemical engineering, Jack took a position with E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co. He had assignments at several plants, including a three-year stint in Buenos Aires, Argentina, before spending most of his duPont service at Waynesboro, Va., where he was in charge of process control for the complex textile fibers plant located there.

In Waynesboro, he was district chair of the Stonewall Jackson Area Council B.S.A., finance chair of the United Community Fund and of the Republican Party, a deacon and elder of the First Presbyterian Church.

He married Elizabeth Bigham in 1930, and they had two sons, John R. Jr. and Robert B., and six grandchildren. To all of the surviving family, the class extends its deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1929