Karl Gustav Pearson ’27

KARL DIED Mar. 6,1991. His background was unusual for a Princeton undergraduate of the 1920s, when the campus was Eastern and Anglo. He was born in the Swedish community of Lindsborg, Kansas. His father became a professor at the Swedish Lutheran Upsala College, in East Orange, NJ., where Karl became a trustee.

Karl was a brilliant scholar (Phi Beta Kappa), writer, and debater, a leader in Clio Hall, prominent on the Speakers Council and the Intercollegiate Debating Teamfollowing a career as editor of high school newspapers in Kansas and Washington, D.C.

Karl aspired to be a lawyer or teacher, and in later years taught at the Univ. of Michigan Graduate school of Business Administration. Meantime, industry claimed his eminent business talents, and he devoted many years to Akron's Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. in marketing and research, and was elected associate director. He always cherished the study of law, and earned the degree of doctor of jurisprudence from the Univ. of Michigan.

During WWII Karl served on the Army/Navy Munitions Board in Washington, D.C., and (with a Naval commission) as chief, textiles section, Office of Production and Material. He rose to the rank of It. commander and graduated into the reserve. Never one for all work and no fun, Karl relished golf and tennis.

The Class of 1927