W. Bruce Douglass ’47

Bruce joined us in 1943 but was soon swept into the Navy's Seabees and served in the Philippines and the Solomon Islands.

He returned to Princeton in 1946, but before graduation moved back to his native state of Indiana, where he graduated from Indiana University and married Frances the same year. Bruce went on to graduate studies in psychology at UCLA. As a licensed professional he became an expert in test development, analysis, and administration, designing personnel tests for the State of California, IBM Corp., the Social Security Administra-

tion, and, from 1971 to 1991, Pennsylvania's Civil Service Commission.

Apart from his professional successes, Bruce was a man of many talents. For example, he helped to prepare and market international tours for Sights and Sounds — a Harrisburg musical group. But his great skills lay in composing operas (the first when he was 17) and in writing poems of all genres: some for the sophisticated, others for lovers of humor and fantasy. It is a pity these talents were never centered on fabulous '47, especially in light of his enduring affection for Princeton and our class.

Bruce died June 7, 2007, regretting to the end his inability to attend our 60th. Celebrating this gifted, witty classmate, we send warm wishes to Frances, his wife of 58 years, and their children.