Walter Field McLallen Jr. ’29

Mac died Dec. 3, 1995. He prepared for college at Hill, and at Princeton was in Cap & Gown.

After college he worked in several Chicago brokerage firms and also served as an IRS manager. In the 1930s, he formed an export/import firm with several cousins and became interested in the market for semiprecious stones in Latin America. He taught himself Portuguese and went to Rio de Janeiro, spending a year exploring sources of stones up country.

He entered the Navy in 1941 and went back to Rio as assistant naval attache. He later, with the rank of commander, held a similar post in Lisbon. During the time until his retirement from the Navy in 1966, Mac was constantly on highlevel missions for the Navy and for ArmyNavyAir teams. He had a profusion of citations and medals from Sweden and Portugal as well as the US State Dept. and the Navy.

Mac's heritage went back before the Revolution; one of his ancestors was captured by Indians (all other family members being killed). In 1932 Mac married Marguerite Watson of Chicago. He is survived by their two sons, Walter F. III and Robert Watson. The class extends sincere sympathy to Mac's family.

The Class of 1929