John S. Sease ’69

John died June 29, 2007, near Trier, Germany, after a yearlong struggle with cancer.

After Verde Valley School in Sedona, Ariz., and his freshman year at Berkeley, John transferred to Princeton, where he concentrated in classical philosophy. An accomplished French horn player, he was in the Princeton Orchestra as well as a jug band. A member of Ivy, he mastered six languages, wrote his thesis on Plato, and graduated summa cum laude.

After graduation, John spent a year at the University of Frankfurt on a Fulbright studying critical theory. Following 10 years in the Southwest with his first wife, Roberta G. Steinman *70, he returned to Germany in 1982, earned a master’s in business, taught for the European division of the University of Maryland, and began an IT career at Electronic Data Systems. He co-founded the Princeton Association of Germany and served as its treasurer for 20 years. He played first horn in the Wiesbaden Orchesterverein and for a classical quintet.

In 1992, he married Leonie Hamm, a systems analyst from Trier, and in 1998, they founded a consulting firm. John is survived by Leonie; his children, Benjamin, Constance, and Eric; his grandson, Allan; his mother, Constance; and his brother, Richard. The class extends sympathy to them all.