Mark Edwin Andrews ’27

ED'S DEATH on Aug. 22, 1992, closed one of the busiest and most influential careers in the Class of 1927 and in Houston. For many years it included following his father's path as an attorney, and adding the management of large oil properties in Texas and Louisiana. His first business after leaving Princeton was in serving as a cotton merchant and exporter, as president of Andrews, Loop & CC. in Houston. Ed also taught for eight years in the South Texas School of Law, where he earned his LL.B. degree. He added prestige to his career by becoming a leader in one of the Texas clans of respectabilitythe conservative Democrats. He relished legal study and wrote an essay on the Revenue Act of 1934 and the unclaimed profits tax.

Ed made a distinguished record in WWII as chief of procurement for the U.S. Navy, earned the rank of captain in May 1945, and was awarded a Legion of

Merit citation in Mar. 1946. As chief of procurement and as a member of the executive office of the secretary of the navy, Ed prepared the Navy's basic postwar

procurement policy and organization, He served on the President's Procurement Policy Board, and drafted the Army and Navy postwar procurement legislation. His interest in American overseas relations lured him into the Foreign Policy Assn. and the Houston Committee on Foreign Relations.

In 1928 Ed married Marguerite McLellan of Princeton, an alumna of the prestigious Visitation Convent in St. Louis. She died on June 7, 1946, leaving a daughter, Marguerite McLellan Andrews.

To Ed's family 1927 expresses greetings, and its poignant grief for the loss of one of its finest characters.

The Class of 1927