John Wilson Ely ’27 *33

John Wilson Ely died April 25, 1998. He came to us from Andover, and was a member of the Tiger board and of Tower Club. John roomed with Mitch Posey in Holder Hall. He studied architecture at the graduate school and at the ecole des Beaux Arts in Fontainbleau, France, acquiring his MFA in 1933.

After graduation he became associated with John & Wilson Ely, his father's firm in Newark, N.J., and with Starret Bros. and Eken Construction Corp. John then changed his career and became an agent for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. and, later, a staff adjuster with the claims department of the American Life Insurance Co.

He married Mary Cross, and they had two sons, John and Christopher. John was a devoted Christian Scientist and taught at the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Montclair, N.J. He lived in Verona, N.J. The class extends its sympathy to John's survivors.

The Class of 1927