Kenneth Kepler Sr. ’27

Born in Soochow, China, the son of a missionary, Ken was himself a longtime, committed Presbyterian missionary to China. He died in Columbia, S.C., on Jan. 26, 1999.

Ken came to Princeton from Mercersburg Academy. At Princeton, he majored in history, played football and varsity soccer, sang in the Glee Club, was a member of the intracollegiate athletic committee, served as pres. of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions and of the Intl. Club, and was on the Philadelphian Society Cabinet.

After WWII, he conducted war refugee and famine relief camps, assisted with postwar rehabilitation, and directed a leper home, hospital, orphanage, popular education, and a high school. In Taiwan, he directed the Presbyterian Bible Institute and headed Church World Service in Taiwan.

The class extends its sympathy to the surviving son of his marriage to Kathleen O.B. Neale, and to their two daughters, 17 grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren.

The Class of 1927