Paschal Green Shook Jr. ’35

Paschal died Feb. 9, 2003, in Mountain Brook, Ala., not far from his birthplace of Birmingham.

He prepared for Princeton at the Birmingham University School, where he was on the basketball team and a member of the dramatics club. At Princeton he majored in history, began boxing, joined the editorial staff of the Daily Princetonian, and with his roommate, G.E.K. Smith, joined Cloister Inn. His next stop was Yale Law School, where he graduated in 1938, and then, like many classmates, was claimed by the Army.

Paschal's years in the military were spent in the Judge Advocate General's Corps and working in counterintelligence. He never discussed the latter except to say he was astonished by the number of Princetonians he encountered. After World War II ended he headed back to Alabama, where he spent his civilian career at Shook & Fletcher Supply Co., the ore mining and industrial-supply firm run by his father during Paschal's Princeton years.

By the 50th reunion, Paschal, too, was a retired Shook & Fletcher president. He was involved in many Birmingham organizations including the Jefferson Tuberculosis Sanitorium and metropolitan YMCA.

Paschal's first wife, Henrietta Ryding, predeceased him. He is survived by their children, Paschal G. III, Eva, and Cynthia; three grandchildren; his second wife, Mildred Lanier Shook; stepchildren; and step-grandchildren.

The Class of 1935