Timothy A. Pheiffer ’37

World traveler, English professor, and cloak and dagger man, Tim Pheiffer died Nov. 8, 1999. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Sally, children, Tim, Penelope, and Sophie, and four grandchildren.

At Princeton, Tim majored in philosophy and English, played 150-pound football and crew, was a counselor at Princeton summer camp, and was a member of Cap and Gown.

Tim taught at the American Colony School in Haiti before moving to the American U. in Beirut. After serving with the office of the coordinator of information (now CIA) in Washington in 1942, he entered the Naval Reserve and was assigned to Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia.

After a jaunt on World Report magazine, he served as an English professor at Robert College in Istanbul. From 1950-55 he was chief of the Turkish and Central Asian desks at the Voice of America, for the State Department, in NYC. He later became the number two man in the US Information Service in Karachi, Pakistan.

The class extends its deepest sympathies.

The Class of 1937