Moses Williams Jr. ’55

Moses Williams Jr., son of Moses Williams, was born Oct. 18, 1933, in Boston, and died July 14, 2012, in Cambridge, Mass.

He prepared for Princeton at Middlesex School. At Princeton, Moses wrote his thesis on John Keats, joined Elm Club, and participated in Whig-Clio, choir, and the Undergraduate Schools Committee of Orange Key. His roommates at 68 Little were Morris R. Brownell III, Hunter Ingalls, and Dick Rawls.

Admonished to speak up in class, Moses complied with outstanding success — finishing high in his German class at the Army Language School. After his Army service, Moses worked with Chase Manhattan in Germany and Girard Trust in Philadelphia. He left Girard in 1972 and moved to Bangor, Maine, where he was a child-abuse specialist with the Penobscot-Piscataquis school system.

Returning eventually to the Boston area, Moses had various teaching and social-service positions. Waiting to be admitted to the Soldiers Home, Moses was struck by a hit-and-run driver and was fitted with an artificial right leg. From 1996 on he lived in the Soldiers Home, where, as he said, his fortunes progressed erratically upwards.

Moses is survived by his sister, Harriet H. Nichol, and his nephew, James W. Nicol. To them, the class extends its sympathy.