Philip Henry Phenix ’34

Phil died July 13, 2002, after a short illness. He graduated summa cum laude in mathematical physics at the age of 19 and won our class's Outstanding Achievement Award.

Phil was a longtime resident of the Bridgewater Retirement Community, in Virginia, to which he moved in 1982 from NYC, and where he and his wife of 59 years, Gena Tenney Phenix, a Barnard alumna and faculty member, took part in many community activities and enterprises. He served on Bridgewater College's long-range planning committee and received the college's Outstanding Service Award, cited as a man of deep religious faith, a gifted teacher, and a devoted community servant. Prior to his retirement in 1982, he was a professor of philosophy and education at Columbia U.

In addition to Gena, he is survived by two sons, Roger and Morgan, a nephew, and two nieces. A brother, Robert '35, died in 1989.

The Class of 1934