Myles Connors ’78

Myles Connors died June 17, 2010.

He grew up in Huntington, N.Y., and graduated from Cold Spring Harbor High School before coming to Princeton, where he majored in electrical engineering and computer science. He played in the Jazz Ensemble and enjoyed his friends in Quadrangle Club. For more than two decades Myles worked as a software engineer and technology guru with a small R&D group at Digital Equipment Corp. Later he took a job at NEC, representing that corporation with various computer-industry-standards organizations. A self-professed wandering soul, he eventually settled down in the small town of Issaquah, Wash., where he explored the back roads on his motorcycle.

Myles was both intensely private and wonderfully outgoing, the type of person who would have jumped on a plane and flown to the other side of the world to help a friend in need. He had a rich sense of humor, played spontaneous vocabulary games that, in his words, “would make the dictionary blush,” and regaled others by recalling almost any line from a Marx Brothers or Three Stooges film.

Myles never married. He is survived by his sister, CeCe Connors. The class expresses its condolences to her and Myles’ friends.