Paul Campbell Jr. ’33

Paul died Mar. 11, 1998, as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. He was 85. He was an extraordinarily broadly based person, whose career in investment banking came to an end when he retired from the Service Bureau Corp., a subsidiary of IBM. His nonbusiness life flourished.

He continued to pursue his lifelong obsession, sailing. He and his wife, Julie, sailed in the 51-foot yawl Julie, which Paul had built in England in 1972. They were skillful, intrepid sailors. Their stormy adventure in Whale Cay East Channel described by Paul in a recent '33 Summer Letter is as hair-raising as any described by Melville or Conrad.

During WWII, Paul commanded the Francis M. Robinson, a destroyer escort credited with destroying the only Japanese submarine sunk in the Atlantic.

Paul and Julie never gave up their close contact with Princeton. They audited courses in anthropology, economics, linguistics, and other fields. He encouraged President Shapiro to set up a department of linguistics with its own chairman.

Paul wrote several books. The most recent, The Possible Dream, is stimulating and full of productive thought.

In addition to his wife, Paul is survived by two daughters, Melanie Sharp Bolster and Gordie Villalon, a son, Paul, and five grandchildren.

The Class of 1933