Rowland Grant Oliver ’25

BILL OLIVER was born a Canadian Aug. 22,1902, in Victoria, B.C. and grew up in Montclair, NJ. He attended the Hill School. At Princeton, he was on the soccer team, manager of crew, and a member of the Senior Council and Cap and Gown CV.P.). He roomed with Lew Mack and Harvey Phillips and went around the world with them on a British freighter after graduation.

He was an active and highly respected member of the Class, serving on the reunion committee for all major reunions and on the executive committee. He was an avid skier and tennis player and enjoyed sailing at his summer home in Small Point, Me.

A 50year resident of New Canaan, Conn., he was a trustee and treasurer of the New Canaan Country Club and the New Canaan Country School. He also had a lifelong charitable interest in the N.Y. TIMES Neediest Cases Fund. He was a founding member of Beck, Mack and Oliver, an investment counseling firm in N.Y.

He died Dec. 14, 1990. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Ruth Morgan Oliver; and children Anne Jackson Peggy Hedeman, David '64, and Thomas; and 11 grandchildren.

The Class of 1925