Norman C. Bensley ’65

Norm died Oct. 28, 2013, after a multi-year battle with cancer.

Born in New York City, he attended Fieldston, playing varsity golf for three years, although the acme of his golf career involved winning the “closest to the hole” contest at our 40th reunion with a hole in one. With typical modesty, he watched the ball disappear, turned to his partners and said, “What happened?”

Norm majored in history and took his meals at Terrace, where he joined his childhood and lifelong friend Carl Heimowitz ’64. He received a master’s degree in history from the London School of Economics, a law degree from Columbia, and master of laws in taxation from NYU. A member of several prominent New York and Washington, D.C., law firms, he specialized in tax and lobbying, also serving as chief tax counsel for New York Life. A deeply loyal Princetonian, he worked for Annual Giving and attended most of our major and off-year reunions.

Norm and his former wife, Robbie Weicher, had two children, Rachel and Adam, who survive him, as does his sister, Francine Friedman, who cared for him a long while before his death, and six grandchildren. To his family and the many friends he kept over the years with his good-natured unflappability and quiet sense of the absurd in all its manifestations, the class sends its sympathy on his passing.