Mark H. Tallman ’71

Mark died Jan. 23, 2024, of complications of pancreatic cancer in Lincoln, Neb. We bid farewell to our class’s only lifelong resident of Nebraska. 

Mark came to Princeton from Southeast High School in Lincoln with classmate David Moessner. He majored in economics, lived with Jim Hart and Bill Stewart in Patton, belonged to Cloister Inn, and enjoyed IAA sports, especially basketball. Classmates remember him for his good cheer and easygoing manner. 

After graduation, Mark joined the Nebraska Air National Guard, trained in the family construction products business, and later worked as a stockbroker. None of the three was an occupational match. He eventually found professional success by purchasing his own computer-supply company in Lincoln and rebounding from a challenging personal/business situation in the early 1980s. His company, Data Source Media, prospered, making the Inc. magazine 500 list of fastest-growing, privately owned companies three times. Mark’s life was a model of stability, owning the same business and living in the same house for his last 40 years.

Mark’s hobbies included collecting presidential, dignitary, and celebrity autographs and collecting elephant figurines and sculptures from around the world. He reveled in supporting the University of Nebraska athletics and attending the Olympics.

To his brother Tom and other family and friends, the class extends its sincere condolences.