Stanton G. Gillespie ’46

Stan died Nov. 27, 2004, at home in Sharon, Conn.

Born in Short Hills, N.J., he entered Princeton in 1942 to study engineering but left for the Navy's V-12 program at Cornell University in 1943, graduating from there in 1945. After an initial job with Pan American Airways, he began his career as a banker with Chemical Bank of New York and American National in Hamden, Conn. He retired in 1990.

Stan served the class in the 1950s as a regional schools committeeman. His first wife, Betty Haffner, bore him three sons, William, Hugh, and Douglas. He married again in 1968 to Joan Reynolds. The class mourns the loss of a loyal member and extends sympathy to his surviving widow and family.

The Class of 1946