Malcolm L. Monroe ’32

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Mal died on July 30, 2001, in New Orleans. He was 90. He attended Woodberry Forest School and received an AB degree from Princeton, where he was in Quadrangle Club and ROTC. He also received an AD degree in law from Harvard, a master's in civil law from Tulane, and was admitted to the Louisiana Bar in 1937.

He served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy. He was a lawyer with Reconstruction Finance Corp. and the Security and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC, before joining Monroe & Lemann, where he became a managing partner. He was a director of the Whitney Natl. Bank of New Orleans, Downman Inc., Bowie Lumber Company, Ltd., the New Orleans and N. W. Railroad, and New Orleans Terminal Company. He was a member of the Boston Club, the New Orleans Lawn Tennis Club, the New Orleans Country Club, and the Bay Waveland Yacht Club.

Survivors include a son, Arthur B.; two daughters, Moyna B. and Diana M. Lewis; seven grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren, to whom the class extends its sincere condolences.

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