Millicent H. Fenwick ’37

PIPESMOKING, EMINENT, but modest, grande dame of politics, honorary member Millicent Fenwick died Sept. 16, 1992, at age 82. She wrote, "I now feel it's all really official! I've got my jacket, carefully hung in the cupboard, and I'm all set for the June 4 Prade!" In 1983 she wrote, "Since I'm only honorary, I really don't think you want my databut just to be a good sport, here is a little informationmarried 1932daughter Mary Stevens Reckford [who died in 19871, son Hugh Hammond Fenwick, I I grandchildren. It just doesn't fit the right eye bracket, does it? But I so enjoyed our reunions." At the time of her death, she had added three greatgrandchildren.

She lost her 1985 Princeton honorary degree certificate in Rome, but on receiving a copy said, "I'm happy every day to see my framed Hon. Diploma from Princeton, on account of what Princeton means to us all."

She constantly helped, while in Congress, to fight the I.R.S. bureaucracy. On one occasion in 1978, when informed that a volunteer fire department return had been rejected as wrong (in answer to "compensation paid," where they had put "0", the I.R.S. said they should have put "None"), she wrote, also showing her concern for her constituents, "I see what you mean, They slapped a lien on the $1,200 bank account of a little church in my districtwith no warningto 'satisfy Social Security payments the church did not owe!"

We have lost a great lady.

The Class of 1937