Sidney Eugene Pendexter Jr. ’37

Lifelong resident of the Oranges and avid reuner Gene Pendexter died Mar. 17, 1997, of a heart attack, leaving Eleanor, his wife of over 50 years, his children, Nancy, Bobby, and Billy, seven grandchildren, and a sister, Helen Duling. Eleanor's happy skirt was our reunion material. As to his first son, he said, "I am glad to report that our son has already exhibited aggressiveness, which should strike fear in the hearts of the Yales."

He came to Princeton from East Orange H.S. He majored in chemistry. He was Freshman Honor Man, Phi Beta Kappa, graduated with highest honors, and won the Robert Thornton Prize and the George A. Howe '78 Prize in Analytical Chemistry. Gene took his medicine degree at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in NYC and interned at Orange Memorial Hospital before the Army grabbed him for over three years, ending as captain, with combat in Guinea, Biak and Mindinao. "For some strange reason, I received a Silver Star at Biak (Ever heard of it?) . . . I became an avid bridge enthusiast in the army (it was inevitable)." Thereafter came practice as an ophthalmologist, first at Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital and then private practice as an "eye physician." He retired in 1984.

All our love to Eleanor and the progeny.

The Class of 1937