Sid Preswick Howell ’44

SID HOWELL, a wonderfully cheerful, always optimistic, popular guy passed away after a 11/2-year battle with lung cancer Nov. 18, 1989, at his home in Keowee Key, S.C. Sid made our 45th and so typically never mentioned his terrible illness. His wife Ruth wrote, "Princeton and his classmates held a special place in his heart. He was never happier than when he was in their company." He majored in history, and was a member of the Freshman Committee, Orange Key, and Charter. Swimming was his sport; Seamen, Fuzy, Frei, and Burt Ford his roommates. Sid was one of the 50 Tigers commissioned in the O.C.S. Class #83 Sept. '43 at Ft. Sill, Okla. He married Ruth that December and left for Europe and the third army, flying as forward observer in Piper L-4s. Many of his sorties were shared with John Flournoy as pilot.

He earned his law degree at Cornell and his spurs in the N.Y. Court of Appeals on his way to an active, far-reaching practice of corporate law and anti-trust litigation. Sid twice argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He took a year's leave from law to chair the N.J. Volunteers for Adlai Stevenson in his run for the presidency. Golf was his recreation, and he held memberships at the Ridgewood C.C. and Mid Ocean in Bermuda. His affiliations were too numerous to list.

To his widow Ruth, his sons Douglas and Russell '73, his daughter Marcia Fusaro, brothers Alan and Fred, sister Alibeth Howell, and his five grandchildren go our heartfelt sympathies. We have lost a devoted classmate.

The Class of 1944