Lynn W. Hall ’57

Lynn died Jan. 9, 2016. In 1975, already a leading Shearson Lehman stockbroker, Lynn created the Hall Management Group, a dynamic trading entity within Shearson. An avid sailor, Lynn and two sons sailed his yacht across the Atlantic to open a recently purchased house perched high above the Barcelona harbor in Spain. Lynn was also an accomplished flutist.

In 1980, he acquired 16 waterfront acres on the island of Islesboro, off the coast of Maine. Accessible only by ferry, countless truckloads brought all he needed to his property. Atop his forklift, he excavated the foundation for a large house overlooking the property. Lynn learned to fly. He housed his Cessna in a hangar he built from a kit. Despite lacking a nighttime license, he stopped at five airports en route to California to visit family. Later, incredibly, he made the same trip by motorcycle, but this time, not feeling well, he flew home.

In 1985, he moved to Brunswick, Ga., where he became director of the Latin American Cultural Institute, devoting himself to teaching English to Hispanics. Five years later, it closed, but Lynn already had formed a soccer league for Hispanics.

Surviving him are four sons; 11 grandchildren; brother Geoff ’55 and sister-in-law Heidi; twin sister Carol and her husband, Albert Murray; and his ex-wife, Ginny.