Joseph Crossley ’45

Joe died Aug. 7, 2004, after a long battle with cancer.

Joe was the grandson and namesake of the founder of the Crossley Machine Co. in Trenton, N.J., and son of the famed pollster Archibald M. Crossley of Princeton. He entered Princeton from Loomis and joined Cloister Inn. His Princeton career was interrupted by Navy service with the Atlantic Fleet as a member of Torpedo Squadron 153.

Joe returned to Princeton to receive a degree in electrical engineering in 1947 and then joined Time magazine in its engineering department. He remained at Time for a decade, specializing in paper manufacture. In 1952 Joe married Suzanne Moore, but they subsequently divorced. In 1970 the National Science Foundation sent Joe to Pennsylvania State University in preparation for teaching engineering technology and he received a master's in education. Joe later worked for Westvaco in Pennsylvania and finally as a technical inspector for the Department of Defense.

Joe is survived by his second wife, the former Nancy Tirrell; three sons, Robert, Peter, and Lawrence; nine grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and sisters Helen Crossley and Dorothy Crossley. The class expresses its sympathy to the family.

The Class of 1945