Joseph W. Hungate ’60

Son of a music professor, Joe was born, raised, and attended high school in Oberlin, Ohio. At school he played basketball and golf. With us he majored in English, served in Navy ROTC, and broadened his sports interests with IAA football, pool, billiards, and pingpong, the latter three centered in the Tiger Inn game room.

The Navy gave Joe two years on destroyers in the Pacific and another commissioning a new guided-missile destroyer. He continued to serve in the Navy Reserves until his retirement as a captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps.

Joe earned a law degree at Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley, in 1966 and returned to Ohio, where he was employed with the Squire Sanders law firm in Cleveland until 1972. He then transitioned to corporate counsel positions with several major corporations until his retirement in 1996.

On retirement, Joe and Starr (married in 1995) moved to Grants Pass, Ore., where he returned to his earlier academic pursuit, teaching English at Brighton Academy.

Joe died June 7, 2024. He is survived by his two children from his first marriage, and two grandchildren. The class extends its sympathy to them all.