Paul, a distinguished and loyal member of the Class of '31, died on May 28, 1999, in the Westminster Health Center in Dover, Del. Born Apr. 11, 1910, in Carlisle, Penn., Paul moved at an early age, and in 1927 he graduated from high school in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
At Princeton, he was secretary of the executive committee of the University Club; a member of Westminster Society Cabinet; v.p. of St. Paul's Society Cabinet; organist and lay reader at Trinity Church, in Rocky Hill, N.J.; and a member of Whig Hall.
From early on it was apparent that religion was his forte. Following graduation and two years study at the General Theological Seminary, Paul went on to Union Theological Seminary and received a BD degree the following year.
He was ordained in the Episcopal ministry, and became curate of the Church of the Messiah in Glens Falls, N.Y., and in 1936 he became rector of the Church of the Cross there. In 1940 Paul became vicar of St. Paul's Church in Camden, Del. During WWII, he was chairman of the operating committee of the Dover USO and served as an aircraft spotter and civilian defense block warden.
After the war, the West Indies beckoned, and Paul went. In 1959 he became canon residentiary of St. John's Cathedral in Santurce, Puerto Rico, and in 1960 he became the first resident Episcopal bishop of the Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo. That same year he received the STD degree from the General Theological Seminary. He retired in Mar. 1972, but continued to volunteer.
Paul is survived by his wife, Helen, one of his two daughters, five grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. The class extends its deepest sympathy to the entire family.
The Class of 1931