Joseph W. Pool ’33

JOE POOL PASSED AWAY July, 21, 1994, in N.Y.C., where he had lived most of his life. He prepared for Princeton at Erasmus Hall H.S. in Brooklyn.

After graduation, he entered the retail sales field with John Wannamaker's in N.Y.C. He served in the Navy during the war, attaining the rank of chief yeoman. After the war, he joined the New York State department of labor and became a chief field inspector. After 1948, he, as he put it, engaged in various sales and personnel activities. His hobbies were skiing and in particular, travel, which he did extensively.

Joe never married. He always explained this fact by saying that the only women he ever loved was Marlene Dietrich and she had other arrangements. Throughout his life, he was a prudent and successful investor and a philanthropist with a continuing deep interest in programs to assist abused children and abused animals.