Michael Alfred Whitley ’45

Ike Whitley died Sept. 18, 2007, just two months before his brother-in-law and classmate, Frank Melville.

Mike prepared for Princeton at Choate, and at Princeton joined Cottage Club and played freshman football and hockey. He left Princeton for service as a forward observer with the 4th Marine Division, seeing combat in the Pacific. After the war, he returned to Princeton and received a degree in 1948. He then entered a succession of merchandising managerial enterprises in New Jersey.

As his career attested, Mike's favorite two phrases were "Melville Charitable Trust" and "Go Tigers." Mike was predeceased by his wife, Frederica, and his daughter Michele. He is survived by a son, Jeff, and by his sister, Allen Melville. The class expresses its sympathy to the family.