Joseph Wallace Oman ’32

WALLY OMAN died peacefully, after a stroke, on Nov. 18, 1992, at his home in Berkeley, Calif.

After graduation from Princeton, Wally took courses in accounting and became a certified public accountant. He moved to California in 1935, where he settled in the Bay Area and engaged in the practice of public accounting. He was a partner in the accounting firm of Logan and Logan, until retiring from that profession in 1955. At that point, he took mathematics courses at the Univ. of California at Berkeley for two years and then became involved in many public interest activities, such as the Committee to Desegregate the Berkeley Public Schools and the Berkeley Committee for the Appreciation of Excellence in Youth. He was on the Board of the Whale Center and the Ocean Alliance. In WWII, he served as a Navy officer in the Naval Supply Depot, Oakland, and on Guam.

His first wife, Mary Jane, died in 1976. Wally is survived by his widow, Isabel Johnson; his three sons, Joseph W III, Charles Pennington, and Douglas William; two daughtersinlaw; a stepson; four grandchildren; a sister; and a brother, William M. '34. The Class offers its condolences to them all.

The Class of 1932