Norman Dyke Van Carpenter ’47

NORM CARPENTER died on Mar. 23, 1992. He entered Princeton in the summer of 1943, but left in Feb. 1944 for service in WWII. After basic training he was sent to the European Theater, where as an infantryman he was decorated with the Bronze Star, Returning to Princeton in Dec. 1948, he majored in economics and joined Tiger Inn. He received honors at graduation in 1949. After Princeton he enrolled in the Harvard School of Business, from which he took his M.B.A. in 1950.

A native of Milwaukee, Norm spent his entire life in that city and its environs, apart from his student and service years. From Harvard, he returned to Milwaukee to take a position with a manufacturing company, and five years later he moved on to a firm engaged in the distribution of road machinery. His successes in the business world notwithstanding, he found time for fishing, camping, skiing, and tennis, occasionally going beyond the borders of Wisconsin, to the Rockies, in these pursuits. In 1959 he married Barbara Barnes, also a native Milwaukeean. She and their children, Catherine, Elizabeth, and Peter, shared in his enjoyment of the outdoor life. To them the Class extends its deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1947