Pitt Sawyer Willand ’39

PITT DIED June 14, 1992, in Tucson, where he and his wife, Anne, had settled in 1988 at the end of a long career that kept them on the move both here and abroad.

After college, Pitt did graduate work at Harvard, taught at Hotchkiss, and in 1942, joined the American Field Service as an ambulance driver in Africa, the Middle East, and Italy.

Ordained a priest of the Episcopal Church in 1949, Pitt served parishes in Watertown, Mass.; Athens, Ohio; Webster Groves, Mo.; Portland, Ore.; and Sandpoint Idaho. From 1954 to 1957, he was representative of the Episcopal Church in the Middle East, living in Beirut After retiring in 1979, he served for several years as chairman of the Youth Accountability Board in Sandpoint.

In Arizona, Pitt plunged with zeal into the study of Spanish, took an interest in the Spanish mission in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, and served as docent at Tumacacori National Historic Park.

Through the years, whenever their travels took them to the Northeast, Anne recalls, Pitt liked to stop in Princeton for a quiet nostalgic ramble through the campus, which she enjoyed too. To Anne and their son John, we offer our sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1939