Milton Nye Weatherhead Jr. ’53

Milt died July 28, 2006.

A native of Alexandria, Va., he entered Princeton from George Washington High School. At Princeton, Milt roomed with classmates Clark Tufts, Steve Paliska, and Eric Sundt, and was a member of Terrace Club.

During the summer of 1951 Milt was introduced to Georgia Cort, a friend of Clark's in Japan, and they were married the following summer. Milt postponed graduation for a year, graduating in 1954. In 1958 he joined the AC Spark Plug division of General Motors Corp. in Michigan. He retired in 1996 and returned to northern Virginia.

Milt was an inveterate community volunteer. In Michigan he was a cub-pack leader and a leader of Michigan Toastmasters. He belonged to the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Alexandria and the Kena Temple Shriners, shepherding crippled children between Virginia and Philadelphia. He served at the National Archives in Washington, sorting Civil War documents for microfilming. He was treasurer for the AARP Greenspring Chapter in Springfield, Va., a VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) and AARP tax preparer for the elderly, and a Fairfax Station Railroad Museum board member.

The class extends its sincere sympathy to Georgia; his two sons, Milton N. III and Charles Paul; and eight grandchildren.