Samuel L. MacCorkle ’37

DESCRIBED IN THE CHARLESTON GAZETTE as "a Democrat, a West Virginian, and an honest man," Sam MacCorkle died Jan. 24, 1991, of an apparent heart attack.

At Woodberry Forest he was a prefect for three years; a member of the Senior Council; president of his class; played on the football, basketball, baseball, and track teams; and won the Latin Medal and Memorial Medal on graduation. He left Princeton early and in 1940 obtained a law degree at Washington and Lee. Before using it, however, he was assigned to the 91st Infantry Division and stationed at Camp White, Ore., in the vicinity of which he met his wife, Charlotte, whom he married in 1942, before two years in Italy. After handling compensation in the local Veterans Administration, he entered the general practice of the law with Savage, Goshorn, MacCorkle & Rippetoe in Charleston, W.Va. He was the leader of the Kanawhat County Democrats in the 1960s, and made a comeback in July 1990 when elected chairman of the Kanawhat County Democratic Executive Committee. He lost 20 percent of his lung in 1982 and retired.

The Class sends all its sympathies to his son John and his daughter Gwendolyn.

The Class of 1937