Kent Gailbraith Colwell ’17

KENT COLWELL died at his home in Morristown, NJ., Nov. 28, 1990. He was born in Paris, France, in 1898. He came to Princeton from Manlius School. At Princeton he was a member of Charter Club and roomed with "Fax" Funston. He was on the track team for four years and in the late 1970s he ran in a mile race in Palmer Stadium. He was an ardent and able tennis player, which he continued until he was 85. In WWI he was a first lieutenant in infantry, and served in France in the S.O.S. He was on the American Commission to Negotiate Peace and was cited by the commander of the A.E.F. In Sept. 1919 he joined Guaranty Trust in N.Y. He retired from Guaranty in 1962 as V.P. For several subsequent years he was U.S. representative for Credit Lyonnais of Paris. He has always been active in community affairs in and around Morristown, including service as warden of the Episcopal church, president of the Memorial Hospital, and on the advisory board of the Boy Scouts, and as a trustee of the NJ. conservation foundation, Community Chest, and library. He has been president of 1917 three times, Class agent, trustee of the 1917 Foundation, and secretary of the Class. We have lost one of the grandest members of our Class. We will always miss him. We send our deep sympathy to his widow, Pam, his two daughters and two sons, 15 grandchildren, and seven greatgrandchildren.

The Class of 1917