Lewis Van Halow Dusen Jr. ’32

Lew, a giant in a class with a number of giants, who regarded civic duty as an obligation, died Nov. 15, 2004. He was 93.

Lew attended Episcopal Academy and St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. At Princeton he graduated at the top of his class, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, was a member of Ivy Club, and at various times played on the cross-country, hockey, track, class football, and rugby teams. Freshman year he roomed with Buzz Roberts, and sophomore through senior years he roomed with Buzz, Fran Hart, and Cap Wister. After a year at Harvard, he was named a Rhodes Scholar and earned a law degree from Oxford in 1935, again at the top of his class.

Lew married Marie Pepper Whelan in 1935, the year he joined Drinker Biddle. His served in Europe and North Africa during World War II, returning as a lieutenant colonel with a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. In 1950 he became assistant deputy to the United States representative to NATO.

Lew served on the boards of the Greater Philadelphia Movement, Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, and Inglis House in Philadelphia, and was a trustee of Princeton and Episcopal Academy. After Marie's death in 1994, Lew married Ruth Patruk Hodge. To her, Lew's children, Duncan W. '58, Michael H. '65, and Sally P. Van Dusen; 12 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren, the class sends sincere condolences. Requiescat in pace, old friend.

The Class of 1932