Orvis C. Yingling ’40

Ying died Oct. 15, 2009, in Westport, Conn.

In 1938, he transferred from Princeton, earning his degree from Westminster College.

After Pearl Harbor, he volunteered in the Army. His entry in our 50th-reunion volume described his Battle of the Bulge experience and his subsequent work for the military government after V-E Day. He wrote that he “ended up in military government, running a lot of businesses in Bavaria.” In 1949 he became assistant U.S. secretary for the Allied High Commission, setting up the West German government in Bonn.  

In 1951, Ying joined Union Carbide and worked with graphite companies in France, England, Italy, and Sweden. In 1963 he went back to New York to take care of foreign responsibilities for Carbide. He later started his own company, Curling Associates of Saugatuck, Conn., which offered the latest steel rolling-mill technology.

Ying was an active member of Earth Place (Nature Center), Westport Rotary Club, and Food for All.

“It has been a good life,” he wrote in our 50th yearbook. “I have been blessed to have Margaret for a wife, and we have a close family with three children and their spouses with a gaggle of little ones.” To Ying’s survivors, the class offers sincere sympathy.