John Wie Van Zaugg ’40

Jack died June 2, 2004, in San Mateo, Calif.

He prepared at Horace Mann and Riverdale Country Schools in New York, and at La Villa in Lausanne, Switzerland. At Princeton, Jack majored in politics, was on the track and fencing teams, captaining the epee team to an undefeated season, and was a member of the Glee Club, yacht club, ski clubs, and Elm Club.

Jack entered the Navy after less than two years at Harvard Law School, and became commanding officer of LSM-220, spending four years in the Pacific theater and reaching the rank of lieutenant commander.

War service exposed Jack to the San Francisco area, and after earning his law degree at Harvard, he returned to San Francisco to marry Ana-Maria Orive of Guatemala in 1948 and to join the Bank of California. After several years at the law firm of Kelso, Corton and Ernst, he returned to banking to become vice president of Wells Fargo, remaining active in the American, California, and San Francisco bar associations.

Jack was an officer of the Princeton Alumni Association of Northern California and Nevada. He spent some summers at his family cottage on Chebeague Island, Maine.

He is survived by his wife, Ana-Maria; daughters Ana-Maria Zaugg, Alexandra Swafford, and Renee Nottebohm; and five grandchildren. To them, his classmates extend sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1940