Norman Spencer Welch Jr. ’35

Belatedly, the news has reached us that Norm Welch died Apr. 21, 1997, peacefully, in his sleep, at home in Reswell, Ga. He was 84.

Norm entered Princeton from the H.S. of Charleston, S.C. He had a War Memorial Scholarship for four years and was president of Cloister Inn Club. Despite having majored in geology, Norm pursued a career in banking, first in Atlanta, and later with Guaranty Trust in NYC and Trust Co. of Georgia in Atlanta.

He married Betty Medina of Brooklyn in 1939, and they had three daughters, Katherine, Dorothy, and Jean, and one son, Norman III '77, now a doctor.

In 1994 Norm took early retirement from the Trust Co. of Georgia in Atlanta. The family moved to Cumming, Ga., where he was a cofounder of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit. Norm started a new career as investment officer of the First Natl. Bank of Gainesville, Ga. He retired again in 1977, expressing his happiness with a "countrystyle existence." However, Betty, his wife of 55 years, predeceased him in 1995. Surviving are the three daughters, son, and six grandchildren, to all of whom we send our most sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1935