Walter Harrison White ’50

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Walt died at his home in Cable, Wisc., on May 9, 2000. He was 73.

He prepared for Princeton first at the Hawken School in Ohio and graduated from Episcopal H.S., where he was a proctor and played squash. He served in the navy from 1941-46.

At Princeton Walt majored in economics and was on the freshman crew.

After graduation he spent the next 25 years as an executive of White Motor Co. in Chicago, where he lived in Lake Forest, Ill. He then moved on to Wayzata, Minn., with the Minnesota Truck Center and Wisconsin White Trucks, Inc.

Walt was a sportsman and conservationist.

He is survived by his daughter, Jennifer Young, and his son, Michael D., to whom the class sends its deepest sympathies.

The Class of 1950

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