MacDonald "Mac" Lynch ’37

A selfdescribed "unrepentant entrepreneur," Mac Lynch was working on plans for an innovative waste oil refinery just days before he died July 17, 1996, in Houston, Tex. He was 81. He was into aircraft, agriculture, advertising, insurance, oil, computers, plastics, business management, and investments. "Ideas unlimited," said he.

He was a founder and director of Environmental Waste Oil Management, Corralux Corp., Big Horn Corp., SyTech Corp., and Systems Corp. of America, to name a few. He was a developer of one of Houston's early high-rises and the country's first RV resort. On retiring to his Frio River home, Mac started one of the first apple orchard/vineyards in the Texas hill country. He loved flying, automobiles, tennis, reading, and composing limericks.

At McDonogh School, Mac was on the wrestling, lacrosse, and football teams, earning All Maryland Center. A scholarship student at Princeton, he majored in modern languages and was a promising wrestler and football player until a back injury intervened. He held two honorary and coveted posts: manager of the parking squad and of Key and Seal eating club.

The Class of 1937