Shelby Winstead ’27

SHEP DIED Mar. 6, 1992, He joined the Class of 1927 in Sept. 1925, by transfer from Centre College, Kentucky, where his home was in Henderson. His father was a graduate of Centre College. He told the NASSAU HERALD that he wanted to be a banker, but the law prevailed and he became a Harvard LL.B. in 1930. After a brief association with a Detroit firm, he moved to Louisville, in 1931, and started a long career by serving as clerk to a judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Louisville and Cincinnati. Eventually he became a partner in the legal firm of McElwain, Dinning, Clarke and Winstead. He was associated also with the firm of Woodward, Hobson & Fulton. During WWII Shep served for about four years as captain and major in the Army Air Corps legal branch.

Shep led a very full life apart from business, He was active in the Pendennis, WynnStay and Louisville country clubs, and was one of Louisville's prominent Princetonians, as a representative on the graduate council of the national alumni association, and a member of the local Princeton association. Although not active in politics, he was a loyal southern democrat, and he found religious strength in the Presbyterian Church,

Shep married Clara Allen (Smith '29) of Louisville, on Dec. 2, 1932.

With all his relatives and friends, the Class shares its sense of loss and its sympathy in bereavement.

The Class of 1927