Wallace C. Latour ’46

WALLACE CHARLES LATOUR died Apr. 11, 1992, in Beverly, Mass., after a long and debilitating illness. Wally was born in New York and graduated from Andover in 1942, along with some distinguished classmates, including George Bush. Wally served as a paratrooper in the European Theater in WWII, advancing from private to lieutenant before returning to Princeton in 1946. He graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School, summa cum laude, winning the John Larkin Economics Prize and a Phi Beta Kappa key. Wally was a member of Elm Club and later became chairman of its graduate board.

Though Wally completed legal studies at New York Univ. and Fordham, most of his career was in the investment world. By the age of 45, he had become C.E.O. of Bache, advancing rapidly through the labyrinth of Wall Street, via Merrill Lynch and F. I. Dupont. Wallys avocations included tennis, skiing, and paddle tennis, in which he was ranked fourth in the country. The Latours lived for years in Bronxville but moved to Manchester, Mass., in 1982. Wally was president of the Stratton Mt. Country Club for 12 years and was a longtime member of the Bronxville Field Club.

As Wally fought the inevitable outcome of his disease, his son William wrote, "The only thing he could never do was quit, because he believed in himself and in his personal foundations of truth." TO his widow, Margaret; his sons William and Robert; his daughter Emily Bogle; and the five grandchildren; the Class extends its deepest sympathy. We will long remember one of our best and brightest.

The Class of 1946