Seymour S. Preston Jr. ’29

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SEYMOUR DIED June 20, 1993, in Paoli, Penn. He prepared for college at Lawrenceville. At Princeton, he roomed with Tom Rudel and Johnnie Booth Stevens. He left Princeton in the middle of 1928 and went immediately into the advertising business in Philadelphia, and after a long career became president and then chair of the firm of Arndt Preston Chapin Lamb & Keen. He was a constant worker for Lawrenceville, and was a trustee and chair of many committees. He was president of the Advertising & Marketing Intl. Network and a director of the Brand Names Foundation. He belonged to the Art Alliance and Racquet Club of Philadelphia. In 1930, he married Mary Alicia Harper (sister of our Andy), and she survives, as do their two children, Seymour Ill and Mary Drew White. The class extends sincere sympathy to Seymour's family.

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