Mahlon Paxson Laird ’40

WITH THE DEATH of Pax Laird June 15, 1990, at his Newton Square, Penn. home, the class has lost a warm and friendly colleague. After devoting ten years to the Silver Springs Martin Luther School as personnel director, Pax retired in 1983. Earlier he had occupied personnel management positions with the Univ. of Pennsylvania and the Graduate Hospital. Pax enjoyed life and his love of people, joined with a unique sense of humor added immeasurably to his successful career.

Pax prepared at the Episcopal Academy, which equally shared in his loyalties with Princeton. He majored in psychology and roomed in Holder with Frank Shanbacker and Lew Calder '41. He was a member of Campus Club as well as the 9:39 Club. Following college Pax served in the Armored Infantry and as first lieutenant, with later military government duty in Germany.

Pax adored his family and will be sorely missed, not only by friends and classmates, but especially by his widow, Elizabeth Hutchinson Laird; daughter, Becky and son, Mahlon Jr.; and four grandchildren. To them all the Class sends a message of deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1940