Lawrence Dyke Van Hauxhurst ’37

Ardent fisherman, boatsman, flyer, and bomb expert, Larry Hauxhurst, died Oct. 16, 1994, leaving Audrey, his wife of 53 years, two sons, Scott and Larry, and one granddaughter. His grandfather, George Douglass Van Dyke 1873, was the oldest Princeton graduate in 1948 at age 95.

At Princeton Larry majored in biology, earning honors in his junior year. He rowed varsity crew and was a member of Charter.

When the Natl. Defense Program began, Larry moved to a subsidiary of the United Wallpaper Factories as superintendent. Later he went to the Curran Chemical Co., where he made incendiary bombs.

He was inducted into the Army in 1943 as a private and came out a first lieutenant, having served in the ETO. He was assistant factory manager of Automatic Products Co. in Wisconsin. In 1956 he moved to LaCanada, outside L.A., and worked as national sales manager for Leeden Manufacturing Co., a hydraulic engineering outfit.

As a fisherman, he is known to have caught a 165lb. marlin. He moved to South Laguna, Calif., to be near his 47ft. boat, but he had to dispose of it after he had a serious fall. He had been sick the last 15 years.

We send our belated condolences to the family.

The Class of 1937