John S. Davis Jr. ’53

The Alumni Records office advised us that Jack died Oct. 26, 2012, in Napa, Calif.

He entered Princeton from Haddonfield (N.J.) High School, majored in philosophy, sang in the Glee Club and choir, and belonged to Prospect Club. His roommates included Wally Schmitt, Stanley Korenman ’54, and Dick Cantwell. Dick recalls that Jack spent his junior year in Paris at the Sorbonne and the Institut Catholique.

Jack’s daughter, Ann Tashi Slater ’84, says her father graduated fifth in his class at Princeton, attended Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, and did a surgical internship at UCSF. He finished first in his class at Pensacola’s Naval School of Aviation Medicine, and after military service was associate Peace Corps director for Nepal in Kathmandu. Ann says that Jack then began a successful career as a private psychiatrist that concluded in the San Francisco Bay area.

His interests included classical music, anthropology, botany, and film. He was fluent in French and Spanish and spoke “enough of many more languages to get himself into trouble.”

Besides Ann, Jack is survived by his son, John S. III; daughters Elizabeth Walther and Cynthia; brother Richard; sister Catherine Baselice; and seven grandchildren. We give thanks for Jack, who touched many lives in many ways.