Peter Paige ’40

From the Long Island Advance: "The flags flew at half mast last week [July 21, 2000] over the Bellport Fire House, the Bellport Yacht Club, and the Brookhaven Natl. Laboratory, as the village and the larger community mourned the passing of Peter Paige. He was a big man with a big heart, generous and compassionate, and if Bellport had royalty, he could have been its benign monarch, ruling from the back deck of the Ollie, his cabin cruiser."

Peter attended Choate before entering Princeton. After serving with the Army Air Corps Transport Command during WWII, he became one of the first employees of Brookhaven Natl. Laboratory, where he soon became personnel director. He was chairman of the board of Brookhaven Memorial Hospital for many years. The Bellport Bay Yacht Club, where he served as commodore for four years, celebrated him as a "sportsman, raconteur, dog lover, genial host, skipper par excellence, cruising buff, and all-around bon vivant."

Peter is survived by Natalie Lambing Paige, his wife of 57 years; three sons, Peter O., Douglas W., and Lee A.; seven grandchildren, and two sisters, Mary P. McGuirk and Sheila P. Dominy. To them his classmates extend their sincere condolences.

The Class of 1940