Malcolm Lloyd Wister ’34

Mike Wister, a descendant of "The Fabulous Wisters" of Grumblethorpe, their landmark ancestral home on Germantown Ave. in Philadelphia, which has stood since 1744, died Apr. 21, 2000, after a long illness.

Mike's latest business venture was HiCalCo Inc., a small corporation which sold high-calcium byproduct lime to heavy industry for neutralizing acid water. He dissolved the corporation in 1982. Before HiCalCo, Mike worked for Sun Oil after college, did some industrial construction, and spent more than 10 years in the brokerage business with E. F. Hutton. During WWII he enlisted as a private in the 108th Field Artillery in 1940, and six years later, after stateside and overseas duty, was discharged as a lt.-col.

In retirement, "depending on the season," he wrote, "golf and skiing take up much of my time."

Mike is survived by his wife, Lillian Hirschbeck Wister, an artist whom he married in 1985 (his first wife, Mary "Polly" Mann Adams Wister, died in 1980), a daughter, Mary, and two brothers, Caspar '32 and L. Wynne '36. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934