Wallace E. Green ’50

Wally died May 11, 2019, in Mount Dora, Fla., where he had lived for the past 23 years.

He came to Princeton from Trenton (N.J.) High School. He majored in mechanical engineering, was an editor of the Nassau Sovereign, was on the Engineering Council, and was a member of Elm.

After a year as a Bethlehem Steel trainee, he spent the next two years in the Army at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. By 1954 he had returned to his native Trenton, where he began a 42-year career as a manufacturer’s representative in the fabricated-wire field.

In 1996 he and his wife, Doris, whom he married in 1951 and who shared his work as a manufacturer’s representative, retired. They moved to Mount Dora, where they lived an “idyllic” retirement, becoming lawn bowlers, playing golf, and actively participating in church life. Wally also managed to be an AARP instructor for senior drivers and a 20-year hospital volunteer.

A proud member of our class, he and Doris were frequent campus visitors over the 42 years they lived near Princeton and attended many of our mini-reunions.

Doris predeceased Wally in April 2018. He is survived by daughter Patti; son Jeff; two grandchildren; and a great-grandson.