Kenneth W. Gemmill ’32

A nationally recognized tax lawyer, Ken died Dec. 11, 1998, at his longtime home in Jamison, Pa., after several years of disability resulting from a stroke. Helen, his wife of 57 years, suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage and died in the local hospital 10 minutes before Ken.

After earning his law degree from Pennsylvania Law School, Ken worked in NYC for several years, then became a partner in the Philadelphia firm of Dechert, Price and Rhoads. In 1953 he took a leave of absence to become assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury for tax policy. He was the principal draftsman of the 1954 Internal Revenue Code, which remained virtually intact until 1986.

Ken also was a director of many companies, including American Water Works Co., an active board member of several organizations including the Bucks County Historical Museum, the Heritage Conservancy, the First Presbyterian Church of Germantown, and chairman of the board of Delaware Valley College. His pride and joy was his 400acre, widely acclaimed apple farm in Bucks County, which he bought in 1941.

Of Ken and Helen's four children, only their daughter Elizabeth survives. Also surviving are eight grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. To them all, the class extends profound sympathy in the loss of this outstanding citizen.

The Class of 1932