Warren Ingersoll ’31

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Warren Ingersoll, who lived at Spring House Farm, in Spring House, Penn., died Sept. 6, 1995. He was born Mar. 22, 1908, the son of Edward Ingersoll and Emily Norris Vaux Ingersoll.

He prepared at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. At Princeton he played on the freshman football, hockey, and baseball teams, was a member of Ivy Club and was later its graduate president. He left Princeton after sophomore year to work on a family railroad in Oklahoma. He served five years in the Army during WWII, rising to the rank of major.

He had been chairman and president of F. G. Okie, Inc., a pharmaceutical service company headquartered in Ft. Washington, Penn., until his retirement in 1978. He served on the advisory board of the Girard Bank and the township park board and as a director of the Bryn Mawr Hospital for many years. Waddy was a member of the 1932 U.S. Olympic team, won the U.S. Amateur Racquets Championship in 1940, and held membership the Gulf Mills and Pine Valley Golf Clubs, where he won championships several times. He was president of the U.S. Seniors Golf Assn. from 1973-75.

He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth B., and three sisters, Mrs. Henry W. Large, Mrs. Richard Claytor, and Mrs. Clarence N. Bartow. To them the class extends sincere sympathy. He will be much missed.

The Class of 1931

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