Samuel Stuart Gilbert ’37

International banker Sam Gilbert, always with an eye out for Princeton and golfing, died Nov. 3, 1996, at his home in Pinehurst, N.C., after a long battle with cancer. In 1940 in Shanghai he married Mary Dare, who died in 1991. He is survived by his daughters, Susan Tileston and Joan Longley, and six grandchildren, most of whom are following in their grandfather's footsteps in international affairs.

Sam prepared at Lawrenceville, where he was cum laude. At Princeton he majored in politics, attending the Woodrow Wilson School and graduating with honors. He was a member of Elm Club.

Sam first worked for Natl. City Bank of NYC in Japan and China which led to a position with the Foreign Funds Control Division of the Treasury Dept. in Washington and then the Commerce Dept., War Surplus Export Disposal. In 1946 he began with the First Natl. Bank of Boston as a consultant in foreign banking; he worked in Argentina from 194753.

He then worked in Havana, Cuba, as submanager from 195360, in Buenos Aires from 196169, and in Tokyo as general manager until he retired in 1978. Since then he consulted for the Intl. Executive Corps., with banking assignments in Guatemala and Portugal. One of his final efforts was giving a series of talks to upper classes at the O'Neal School in Pinehurst, N.C.

The Class of 1937