Oliver G. De Vanderbilt ’37

Ollie Vanderbilt died June 20, 2000. He left his wife of almost 62 years, Billie, a son, DeGray, a daughter, Madelon, eight grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. All his life he kept up with fellow Princetonians.

At Princeton, he majored in philosophy and was on the squash and polo teams, was pres. of the Right Wing Club and a gov. of Ivy Club. He started off with the Weir Kilby Corp., manufacturers of railroad materials, with three and a half years in the army and considerable service in Europe, rising to maj. and was awarded the Bronze Star and Croix de Guerre. His subsequent directorships and presidencies are too numerous to mention. His hobbies were horses, fox hunting, and golf (hole in one in 1966), and he engaged in considerable traveling, as with his roommate, Minot Milliken, deceased. He was our chair of deferred giving and bequests in 1972. He ended up in Hobe Sound, Fla.

The Class of 1937