Steele C. Cameron ’45

STEELE CAMERON DIED in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Apr. 18, 1994. He prepared at Deerfield. At Princeton he participated in freshman swimming, freshman varsity lacrosse, and 150-lb. football, and was in Elm Club. He left us to serve in the navy as commanding officer on a minesweeper in the Pacific.

Although Cam's brother Donald graduated with the Class of 1943, Cam obtained a bachelor of engineering degree from Yale in 1944 and his M.A. from Columbia in 1949. Cam then joined the James L. Taylor Manufacturing Co. in Poughkeepsie, where he spent his entire career, and of which he was board chairman at his death.

Cam was a community leader. He led Taylor Manufacruring, which produced glue machines for the furniture industry, to national prominence and to many awards. He served on several local community boards, the Dutchess Bank & Trust Co., the First Congregational Church, the Area Fund of Dutchess County, the Y.M.C.A., and many other community organizations. An avid sailor, Cam was a member of the Edgartown Yacht Club on Martha's Vineyard, where he also maintained a home.

In 1963, Cam married Helen "Bunny" Runyon, who predeceased him in Sept. 1990. Cam is survived by three daughters, Elizabeth C. Chadwick, Frances C. Edwards, and Doris C. Burr, and by four grandchildren, to all of whom the class extends its sympathy.