Lawrence B. Morris Jr. ’40

Our former class president, corporate lawyer, investment banker, and community activist died March 22, 2006, from lung cancer and renal failure. He was and ever will be "Bugle" to his classmates.

After preparing at Taft School, he majored in history at Princeton, was on the Daily Princetonian business board, and was a member of Cottage Club. Larry earned his law degree from Harvard in 1948 after military service from 1941 to 1946, advancing from private to a highly decorated major in the Army Signal Corps.

He married Betty Ann "Gus" Harvey in 1946. Larry was with the firm of White & Case from 1948 until 1969, eventually becoming a partner. He subsequently was president of Dean Witter and briefly worked for Wertheim & Co. before returning to law as a partner with Patterson, Belnap, Webb & Tyler until retiring in 1983.

Larry was a director of Pandick Press, Dictaphone Corp., and the American Stock Exchange; a longtime trustee of the Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club of New York; president of the Darien (Conn.) Land Trust; and an active Princeton alumnus as a member of the Graduate Council.

To his wife, Betty Ann; children Lawrence B. III '69, Michele Carballude, and Anne Keyser; and six grandchildren, his classmates extend sincere condolences.

The Class of 1940