Rollie D. Gilliss Jr. ’44

Rollie Gilliss died in Baltimore on Jan. 29, 2002. After high school and a postgrad year at Choate, he came to Princeton, where he was a finalist in the baseball managerial competition and vice president of Key and Seal Club. He majored in economics.

During WWII he served in an Army anti-aircraft artillery battalion, earning battle stars for service in northern France, the Ardennes, and the Rhineland. He returned to Princeton; after graduation, he joined Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland, rising to vice president; he retired in 1985 from its fidelity department.

Rollie was active in the Towson, Md., United Methodist Church and was an avid baseball fan. He married Ethel in 1950; she survives him, as does their daughter, Lynne, their two sons, Edward and David, and seven grandchildren. The class extends its most sincere regrets to them all.

The Class of 1944