Philip L. Wing ’65

Philip was born Sept. 15, 1943, in Toronto, Ontario, to the Rev. Edward and Margaret Wing. In 1948 his family moved to the United States, and he became a naturalized citizen in 1957.

He majored in philosophy at Princeton after transferring at the beginning of sophomore year from the University of Illinois, and graduated with honors. He wrote his senior thesis on the subject of “Universalization and Rules in Ethics” and roomed with Tom Houghton. He went on to Columbia University and the University of South Florida, where he earned a Ph.D in mathematics in 1994.

He taught for 20 years at Hillsborough Community College in Ybor City, Tampa, Fla. His first wife, Patricia, predeceased him.

Philip died Sept. 9, 2017, in Lakeland, Fla. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn Lofland, whom he married in 2008; sister Liz Wing and her husband, Mike Brown; and sister-in-law Beth Samat and her husband, Bob. The class sends condolences to them all. We remember him as a warm, inquisitive, and thoughtful person, fun-loving, adept at philosophy, and always thrilled to hear Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.