Stanley Wilson Merrell II ’51

Stan was born Jan. 25, 1929, and prepared for Princeton at Deerfield, from which he graduated cum laude.

At Princeton he roomed with Bill Rahill, was a member of Colonial and assistant business manager of The Daily Princetonian, and earned a bachelor's in economics magna cum laude. From 1951 to 1953 he served as a lieutenant junior grade on the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany.

In 1956, Stan married Lynn Stuart of Cincinnati. The following year he was a Baker Scholar and earned an MBA with high distinction from Harvard.

Stan had an outstanding business career. For 10 years he worked at TRW in Cleveland as a contract administrator. From there he went to Rockwell Manufacturing, J.P. Morgan (where he was vice president in charge of corporate development), General Instrument Corp., and finally, in 1976, to Bausch & Lomb in Rochester, N.Y., where he was senior vice president when he retired in 1990. He was at one time chairman of the board of Genesee Hospital and of the Allendale Columbia Schools.

Stan died in Rochester Feb. 14, 2006, of post-surgical respiratory failure. He is survived by Lynn; their children, Stanley III, Caroline Tucker, Louise Middleton, and Katherine Denny; 11 grandchildren; and his brother, Thurston.