John S. Booth ’37

Leader in the field of pigment technology, holder of two patents, and founder of companies, Stu Booth died Aug. 21, 1998. He had married Frances in 1938; later he married Candide, who survives him. He also left daughters Eleanor, Beverley, and Cynthia, sons Stuart, Michael, and Jonathon, 15 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. His hobby? "Raising kids."

At Franklin and Marshall Academy Stu was a member of the Glee Club, played baseball, soccer, and tennis, and participated in dramatics. At Princeton he was manager of the news agency and of Court Club.

After sampling the N.Y. Times circulation department he was a plant superintendent for R.B.H. Dispersions in Bound Brook, N.J. He founded the pigment factory Kroma Chemical Co. in Raritan, N.J., which burned down in 1948 and was flooded by the Raritan River. Then he founded the Standard Ultramarine & Color Co. in Newark. In 1966 he was manager of the pigment department of the Carbic Color Division of American Hoechst Corp. in Mountainside, N.J. In 1970 he cofounded Synergistic Pigments and in 1983 Foaminc Co., producing a water-based ink that converts to firefighting foam. In 1984 he founded Roma Color in Fall River, Mass., serving as its president until he retired in 1992. He suffered strokes in 1992 and 1994.

The Class of 1937