John W. Prescott ’50

John died Jan. 25, 2005, of natural causes in his Vermont home. He was 81.

A graduate of Williston [Mass.] Academy, he served in the Army Signal Corps for three years during World War II. During the second half of his hitch, his battalion operated in the China-Burma-India theater. A Princeton son (his father was in the Class of 1910) John majored in economics and was a member of Tiger Inn.

After graduation he joined his family business in Keeseville, N.Y. Eight years later he started his own wholesale lumber business. He worked alone for the next 10 years and then joined a small, northern New York firm. In 1978 he moved to an Albany lumber company from which he retired in 1988.

John's bachelor life was altered in 1972 when he married Cami Starbuck, a widow with two grown children, and moved to her Westport, N.Y., farm on Lake Champlain. In 2000 they moved to Williston, Vt., to be near Cami's son.

In retirement, he kept busy with golf, lawn work, and winters on Amelia Island [Fla.] Plantation. He especially enjoyed his work with the Literacy Volunteers of America.

Our condolences go to his wife, Cami, his stepchildren, and extended family.

The Class of 1950