Spencer Lawton ’40

The memorial for Spence by the St. Andrew's Society of Savannah might have put it best: "In Atlanta on Nov. 1, 1999, after a long illness, Spencer Lawton died. Or, as we can imagine he might have put it, with a wry delight in mixing Othello and H. L. Mencken into a hash of his own making, on that date he departed into this vale of tears." His wife, Sally Parker Lawton, wrote that Spence "loved Princeton so much, but especially the Class of '40." During his long illness she read the PAW Class Notes to him.

Spence prepared at St. Paul's School and at Princeton majored in economics and was a member of Cottage Club and the crew team. During WWII, Spence attained the rank of major in the Field Artillery and was awarded the Bronze Star. His business career was in investment counseling, later owning Dennison Personnel Consultants.

We will always remember Spence for his deep sense of a moral imperative and ethical integrity, but well salted with a certain irreverence. To his wife, Sally, his daughter, Sarah L. Livingston, his sons, George W. and Spencer Jr., and his three grandchildren, his classmates extend their sincere condolences.

The Class of 1940