Stephen W. Collins Jr. ’35

Stephen Collins died on July 31, 1988, at a nursing home in Bangor, Me., after having suffered for years from Park¬inson's disease. He was a former minister of the Episco¬pal Church.

Stephen came to the ministry slowly. He majored in chemistry at Princeton and studied for two years at Yale Medical School. He then served as a research assistant at Lederle Labs and later (until 1950) was an essential oil chemist at Schimmel & Co., in New York. In 1953, he graduated from General Theological Seminary, in N.Y.C., with the degree of bachelor of sacred theology. After he was ordained, he served rural churches in Dutchess County, N.Y., and New England until about 1970.

In 1936, Stephen married Priscilla Dugan, of Prince¬ton, and they had Stephen Jr. in 1938 and Raymond D. in 1939. About 1968, they were divorced. He then mar¬ried a blind woman who predeceased him.

Information on the last 20 years of his life is scant, but we believe that his survivors are his two sons and his sister, Hope Collins Wiedmann. To them the class ex¬presses its sympathy.

The Class of 1935