Orvel Sebring ’26

Orvel died on Dec. 20, 1999, of Parkinson's disease. He was born June 24, 1905.

Though a resident of Pennsylvania since 1933, Orvel considered Florida, where his father and grandfather in 1911 pioneered a town bearing the family name and established the citrus industry in the center of the state, his home state.

Orvel was a member of Tower Club and the Triangle Club at Princeton. He served the class as pres., secy., and was a member of the committee that inaugurated the faculty/alumni forum program at Alumni Day and reunions. The Princeton Club of Philadelphia was very active under his leadership as pres. during the 1960s. He was also chair of the Princeton committee to nominate alumni trustees.

Orvel graduated from Harvard law school in 1933 and became an associate of the Philadelphia law firm Morgan, Lewis & Rockius. He eventually became a senior partner and retired in 1976.

Orvel was a director of many organizations, including the Bryn Mawr Hospital, and was an elder of the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church. He married Margaret Dulles in 1935, and they lived in Villanova, Pa., for 50 years before moving to Dunwoody Village in 1986, where his wife died in 1997. He is survived by three children and their spouses, Margaret Sebring Southerland, Heatly Dulles Sebring MD '62, and Milbrey Sebring Raney, six grandchildren (including two grandsons, Princeton '98 and '01), and two great-grandchildren.

The Class of 1926