John V. Bennett ’57

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John died July 18, 2013, in Atlanta. At Princeton he joined Terrace Club, majored in sociology, and participated in IAA sports. He was a member of Triangle and played in the orchestra. John had eight senior-year roommates: Bell, Neville, Tucker, Peck, Hoeltzel, Campbell, Kennedy, and Tirana.

After graduation he attended Jefferson Medical College in Pennsylvania. He served in the military as lieutenant commander in the Public Health Service from 1965 to 1968. In 1959, he married Regina and they had a son, Thomas, and later divorced. He did not maintain contact with Princeton in the following years.

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