Raymond S. Willey ’57

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While at Princeton, he majored in physics and joined Terrace Club. Ray participated in golf, basketball, and the Campus Fund Drive. His senior-year roommates were Bill Pierce, Howie Odger, and Al Bergman.

After graduation, Raymond continued in the field of physics, becoming professor of physics at the University of Pittsburgh. He did not maintain relations with his class or Princeton in the ensuing years.

To his family, the class sends its sympathy.

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