Warren W. Nissley Jr. ’48

Warren Nissley, known to his friends as Niss, died Oct. 29, 1995, after a long battle with cancer.

Niss's long professional career took something of a back seat to his devotion to family and friends. His lifelong '48 friends were legion and include Henry Meyer, Tom Wolf, Bill Duffield, Red Noland, Lee Weil, Bob Hodes, and more. Niss graduated from Terrace Club, where the nightly bridge game often went well into the weekend. He came to us with other sons of '14 and the Lawrenceville contingent. He earned Phi Beta Kappa with his degree in economics and in 1958 earned an MBA with honors from Columbia.

After graduation Niss started training for public accounting. "I saw a quicker road to success, married it, and went to work for my father-inlaw" was his quirky way of referring to the happiest moment of his life, his marriage to Eleanore Steffens in June 1949.

After the automobile business he went into economic consulting as director of corporate planning at Continental Can and as CEO of Cogenic Energy Systems. From 1988 he worked in real estate in Tarpon Springs, Fla. The homes that Eleanore and Niss maintained were filled with family and friends. A tennis game was a daily event.

To Eleanore and to Jim, Gale, Peter and Debra, the class extends its deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1948