Malcolm Cravens ’30

Malcolm died Apr. 17, 1999, at his San Francisco home. He was 91. After completing the first two years at the Hotchkiss School, he was forced to leave because of illness; he took his senior college boards that fall and entered Princeton a year ahead of his Hotchkiss class.

At Princeton he received the William Marshall Bullitt prize in mathematics and joined Tower Club.

Malcolm was again forced by illness to take a year off between his sophomore and junior years; he left Princeton after junior year to enter his family's business, Cravens, Dargan & Co. Shortly thereafter the company moved to the Pacific Coast through the purchase of Marsh & McLennan Managing General Agency, and Malcolm moved to San Francisco in 1932 to take charge of the new operation. In 1974 the business was sold to Cigna Corp., and Malcolm stayed on as Pacific Coast manager.

At the time of his death he was chairman of the various Cravens companies in insurance and mortgage banking. Club memberships included the Bohemian, the Pacific-Union, Burlingame, and Cypress Point.

He is survived by his wife of 69 years, Martha, children Hartley, Susan Good, Brenda McAdoo, Carol, and Joan Taylor, 11 grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren. To all of them the class extends its deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1930