Laurin A. Wollan Jr. ’59

Larry died July 4, 2015, in Richmond, Va.

Growing up outside of Chicago, he attended Springfield High School, where he was active in sports and served as prom chairman. At Princeton, Larry lettered in baseball, ate at Cannon Club, and majored in politics in preparation for law school. After graduation, he earned a law degree from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree  in public administration from the University of Illinois.

He briefly taught political science at Millikin University before embarking on a distinguished legal career, which drew to its close at the Department of Justice during the Watergate years.

Larry then returned to the lectern, spending three decades as a professor of criminal justice at Florida State University. At FSU, he met Elisabeth Showalter Muhlenfeld, an English professor who became his second wife in 1981. Betsy went on to assume the presidency of Sweet Briar College in 1996 and the family moved to Virginia, where Larry assumed the self-appointed role of master of Sweet Briar House.

With both awe and annoyance, Larry’s classmates still recall his elephantine memory, which ranged from the trivial to the arcane, all arranged in encyclopedic categories. In just reward, he will not be forgotten.

The class extends sympathy to Betsy; his children, Ann and Larry; and to his stepchildren, Allison and David Muhlenfeld.