Joseph Glenn Hall ’45

Joe died May 17, 2005.

Joe entered Princeton from Walnut Hills High in Cincinnati, followed by his brother William B. Hall '47. He joined Dial Lodge and was on the freshman cross-country team. His Princeton career was interrupted by service as an EMT with the Army Medical Corps. Returning to Princeton he received a degree in biology in 1948 and then earned a master's degree in zoology from the University of Colorado.

Following six years of graduate studies in wildlife management at Berkeley and a year of teaching at Colorado State University, Joe joined the faculty of San Francisco State University as professor of biology in 1957 and remained there until taking early retirement to Grand Junction, Colo., in 1983. As he expressed it, he valued the slower pace of life, access to scenic wilderness, and less crowded living conditions. In 1950 he married the former Elizabeth Allen, a graduate of the University of Colorado, and they remained active in the Nature Conservancy and the Sierra Club and concerned with problems of wilderness preservation throughout their marriage.

In addition to Betty, Joe leaves his daughters, Sally, Connie, Peggy, and Lisa; 10 grandsons; and his brother, William. The class expresses its sympathy to all.

The Class of 1945