Lawrence Dilworth Blair Jr. ’46

Larry died, after a long illness, on Aug. 17, 1999, at Tamalpais Retirement Home in Greenbrae, Calif., where he had lived since 1953.

Brought up in Pittsburgh, the son of L.D. Blair Sr. '12, Larry prepared at St. Paul's School. He majored in philosophy at Princeton, was a member of the tennis team, and played intercollegiate squash, a sport in which he excelled for some 30 years.

During WWII, Larry was a volunteer ambulance driver with the American Field Service, assigned to the British Eighth Army in Italy. After Princeton, he spent six years with coal firms in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia before a move to Crocker Natl. Bank in San Francisco, where he was a v.p. He continued with Wells Fargo Bank as a commercial loan officer.

He is survived by his wife, Sarah; daughters Sarah Hancock and Lucia Webster; brothers Peter and Melville; and three grandchildren. The class extends its sympathy to them.

The Class of 1946