Stanley S. Moffat ’46

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Stanley Moffat died Dec. 26, 2006, in Honolulu at the age of 81.

Stan was born in Scranton, Pa., and entered Princeton in 1942. He served in the Army Signal Corps as an instructor at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and returned to graduate in 1947 with a degree in chemistry. After Princeton, he went on to receive a master's in chemistry from Lehigh University and a diplôme supérieure en cours de civilization Française at the Sorbonne. Before entering teaching, he was a test writer with the Educational Testing Service in Lawrence, N.J.

He spent his career as a chemistry and French teacher at the Punahou School in Hawaii, and spent his free time landscaping and vegetable gardening in a tropical rain-forest environment. He also served as a volunteer squash instructor at the YMCA and as a tourist escort at the National Cemetery of the Pacific.

Stan never married. He is survived by his younger brother, Charles, and his family in Hawaii; two sisters, Jane Mueller and Margaret Young; and several nieces and nephews. To them all, the class extends deepest sympathy.

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