Philip Pidgeon III ’45

Phil Pidgeon died Mar. 17, 1996, of heart failure in his hometown of Memphis, Tenn.

Phil entered Princeton from Choate and was a member of Cap and Gown. His Princeton education was interrupted by combat in the European theater with the 95th Infantry Field Artillery-Phil having been commissioned at Ft. Sill with the large Princeton ROTC contingent. He was awarded three Bronze Stars for his hazardous forward observer assignments. He returned to the campus, took his degree in politics in 1947, and entered the family business, Pidgeon

Thomas Iron Co. in Memphis, where he completed a distinguished community service career and retired shortly before his death.

The class expresses its sympathy to Phil's daughter, Dorothy, and sons, Philip IV and Robert.

The Class of 1945