John Stafford Harlow ’35

Jack died Mar. 19, 1999, in at his home in Spruce Head, Maine. He was 86. Son of Congregational ministers and the grandson of Samuel S. Harlow 1879, he was born in Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey, grew up in Northampton, Mass., and prepared at the Taft School. At Princeton he sang in the choir, was v.p. of Clio, and roomed with Arthur Reeve Jr.

After Princeton, Jack earned a law degree from Harvard in 1940 and moved to Seattle. There, he practiced law for 17 years, specializing in labor and civil rights, and participated in various local church, community, and civic activities. In 1956 he gave up the practice of law and joined the faculty at the U. of Iowa, where he taught business law. At Iowa, he not only received a Faculty Best Teacher Award but also a Ford Foundation grant to study economic planning in France. He retired in 1972.

A lifelong lover of the sea, Jack and his wife (the former Catherine Sinibaldi) then moved to Spruce Head, where he indulged (with great diligence and delight) in the pursuit of two hobbies -- sailing and kayak-building. Cathie and Jack's stepdaughter, Norma Harlow Merritt, survives him, as do three grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. The family plans a waterside memorial this summer at which time Jack's ashes will be scattered at sea.

The Class of 1935