Morris S. Emory ’38

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Mouse died on Mar. 3 in Haverford, Pa., after declining in health in recent years. Having spent his life "behind the eight ball," he always refused to give up the good fight.

Mouse was born and raised in Baltimore and spent his summers at a family home in Brooklin, Maine. He was graduated from the Gilman School and at Princeton was a member of the Ivy Club, capt. of the wrestling team his junior and senior years, and two-time Eastern intra-collegiate wrestling champion.

In 1941 Mouse married Mary Leisenring, and, after WWII, where he received a Purple Heart for wounds sustained on the German front, they made their home in Haverford. His career was spent working for the insurance brokerage firm of Johnson & Higgins in Philadelphia, and he served on the board of the Philadelphia Children's Aid Society. After he retired he was active with Town Watch and enthusiastically served as the chair of the golf committee for several years at Gulph Mills Golf Club.

Mary predeceased Mouse in 1995 and they are survived by his brother, Richard W., their three sons, Mark, Robby, and Denny '70, daughter Cally Golding, and six grandchildren to all of whom the class extends its deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1938

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