Lawrence Priddy Jr. ’31

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LARRY PRIDDY died Mar. 10, 1990, in Menlo Park, Calif. He entered Princeton after graduating from Lawrenceville, where he was in the band, on the school paper board, and was a member of the Press Club. At Princeton, he was a member of Terrace Club. He spent four years in the Army In WWII, and was discharged in 1946 with the rank of major. Larry moved from N.Y. to California in 1952. While in N.Y., he held positions with the John Price Jones Corp., the Boys' Club of N.Y., Standard Oil Co. of NJ., and the Inst. of Life insurance.

He moved to California as public relations representative for Tide Water Associated Oil Co. in San Francisco. Larry's professional affiliations were the Public Relations Round Table of San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America, and the Princeton Club of Northern Calif. Larry's hobbies were golf, color photography, gardening, swimming, and traveling, The Class extends its deep sympathy to his family.

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