S. Paul Hagan ’54

PAUL SAILED quietly away from this earth on Aug. 31, 1989. He started life and grew up in Uniontown, Pa., and graduated from the Loomis School. Between junior and senior years, he and the late Bonnie Palmer were married, and thus lived off campus. He was one of the few of us who could openly have a car at Princeton, much less a sports car which equipped him quite well to be V.P. of the Princeton Sports Car Club.

His senior thesis on "Frank Lloyd Wright vs. the International Style," helped him earn his degree magna cum laude. He then spent two years as a lieutenant in the field artillery, stationed in the South. After military service, he worked for Hagan Dairy Co. until 1966, when he went to M.I.T. and obtained two M.S. degrees, one in management and the other in city planning. He worked as a photographer, filmmaker, and writer, but was hampered in his career as he developed M.S. in 1970-71. His last project, which he did not complete, was a novel describing a trip across the U.S. as a handicapped person.

Departing, Paul leaves his parents, I.N. and Bernadine Hagan, his widow, Suzanne; sons Christopher and Jeffrey; daughters Wendy and Susan; and several grandchildren. At his departure service in Berkeley, Calif., family and friends were reminded of his words, "We travel on a very large sea in a very small boat. May we never be afraid to sail into unknown places."

The Class of 1954