Lloyd A. Free ’30

Lloyd A. Free died Nov. 11, 1996, at a nursing home in Bethesda, Md. Son of a Republican congressman, he was born in San Jose, Calif. He was valedictorian of our class.

He became a founder of accurate public opinion surveys. He taught in China for a year and went to Stanford for a law degree but became a commentator for the BBC & CBS. He returned to teach at Princeton, but left in 1942 a member of Foreign Broadcasting Listening Service.

After the war he worked with UNESCO and the State Dept. He returned to Princeton, and in 1968 he published, along with Prof. Hadley Cantril, a landmark study for the Institute for Intl. Social Research, that pointed out that Americans believe in small, low tax government but support big expensive programs. He retired from the Institute in 1981.

Lloyd is survived by two sons, Peter and Andrew, two daughters, Christine and Kathleen Grant, a sister, Geraldene Fletcher, and a grandson. To them, the class extends deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1930