Philip Heller ’29

Phil died July 10, 1998. He prepared for college at Newark Academy, and he came to Princeton as a transfer from Bowdoin at the start of our sophomore year. He belonged to Gateway Club, and his roommates were Brad Hurchins and Phil Goodwin. Phil was on the gym team and won an intercollegiate championship.

Phil's business career began at R.H. Macy in NYC and Hane in Newark. Then he was successively at New Jersey Title Guarantee and Mutual Benefit Life Insurance. He was a life member of the Natl. Assn. of Real Estate Appraisers and president of its New Jersey chapter. During the war he was a lieutenant commander in the Navy.

Phil was very active in work with the Newark Diocese of the Episcopal Church, and he was a Republican county committeeman. In 1932 Phil married Eleanor Cruse, and she survives, as does their daughter, Valrie B. Libman. The class has a special feeling about Phil, as he was our class secretary for five years and also was memorial chair just before the present incumbent. The class extends sincere sympathy to Phil's family.

The Class of 1929