Kenneth N. Bacon ’45

Ken died July 30, 2010, but the information was not relayed to the class until last year.

Ken entered Princeton from East High School in Rochester, N.Y., and joined Charter Club. His Princeton career was interrupted for service   with the 4th Marine Regiment, where he saw combat in the Pacific. After returning to Princeton, he graduated summa cum laude in economics in 1946 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

He received an MBA from Dartmouth, after which he joined Young & Rubicam, the New York advertising agency. In our class books, he noted that he was briefly married and divorced, leaving no children.

Ken left Madison Avenue for Wall Street, joining an unnamed bank as advertising director. His early homes were an apartment in New York and a home in Westhampton, followed by a move to Madison, Conn., and frequent visits to Portugal, where we believe he was located at the time of his death. We have no other details of his life.

Since there are no known survivors, we can refer classmates to his philosophical   submissions to our class books over the years for an insight into Ken.