Nicholas F. Pallotti ’39

Nick died Oct. 21, 2012, in Rocky Hill, Conn., just south of Hartford, where he had his law firm, Donahue, Pallotti & Collins from 1961 until his retirement.

Earlier in his career, Nick served as a prosecutor for the city of West Hartford, an attorney with the Connecticut Highway Department, and as an assistant attorney general of Connecticut. About his legal career Nick wrote, “I was following the tradition of my father, Judge Francis Pallotti.”

Besides Princeton, Nick’s education took place in his home state: Choate School (where he was the first Italian-American to attend) and the University of Connecticut School of Law.

Nick served with the 29th Infantry Division in World War II, from Omaha Beach to central Germany, earning five battle stars along the way.

Nick married Elisabeth Ballard in 1946. In his retirement, he created a magnificent Japanese garden behind their home in Rhode Island. “This is now my principal hobby,” he wrote in 1989. Nick also wrote editorials for the Hartford Courant. His full page of reminiscences in our 50th yearbook merit re-reading for their factual evocation of our four college years.

Elisabeth predeceased Nick. To his family, the class extends its sympathy and voices a farewell ciao.