Jon L. Plexico ’59

Jon Plexico, a resident of Chatham, Mass., died of a stroke in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2001.

Jon, born in Detroit, prepared for Princeton at Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. At Princeton, Jon was a freshman wrestling manager, worked on the Jamesburg Committee, belonged to Quadrangle Club, majored in mechanical engineering, and joined Army ROTC. Following graduation he served his Army tour in Korea.

After military service Jon attended Harvard Business School, from which he graduated in 1964, and where he met Virginia "Ginger" Penn, whom he married that same year. Various positions in business followed, including a project with the International Marketing Institute to assist in developing marketing techniques in Korea. During his career, Jon held positions as president of Culver Advertising Intl., the H.V. Shuster Co., and the U.S. subsidiary of Plastic Omnium, S.A. He retired from business due to illness in 1993.

Jon served on the board of trustees of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston for 20 years, and was chair of the Center's building committee during its expansion in the 1990s.

Jon is survived by his wife, Ginger; his daughter, Lindsey Ford; his son, Jonathan; and two grandsons, to whom the class extends its deepest sympathies.

The Class of 1959