Wellington Smith Henderson ’25

WELLINGTON HENDERSON was born in Elko, Nev., on Feb. 15, 1902. His family had settled there in the 1870s. His father, Charles B. Henderson, was a U.S. senator.

At Pomfret Hendie was a three-letter man, and at Princeton was a quarterback on the football team. He was the respected and popular undergraduate president of Ivy, served as secretary of the Interclub Committee, was a member of the Right Wing Club, and graduated with honors in history.

He opened bank branches for the old American Trust Co. in Berlin and Honolulu. In 1932, he founded a counseling firm in San Francisco that became the Henderson Boston Co. when he sold it in 1967. He retired in 1982.

He served in the Pacific as a lt. commander on aircraft carriers during WWII. He was a past president of the Pacific Union Club and the Burlingame Country Club, a member of the Cypress Point Club of Pebble Beach, and a founder of the Sugar Bowl winter resort. He was an ardent sportsman — fishing, shooting, and skiing. He attended our 55th reunion, but suffered a stroke some time thereafter, and, after a long illness, died on Jan. 8, 1990. His survivors include his wife, the former Harriet Walker, a son, Wellington Jr. '53, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren, to whom the Class extends its sympathy.