William B. Kline ’37

WE HAVE JUST LEARNED that sales engineer Bill Kline died July 28, 1990. As of 1966, he had a daughter Billie, with a master's degree and a teaching fellowship at L.S.U., and a son John, who attained a degree from Boston Univ. He also had three older stepchildren, one of whom died in 1989. He had wives Joan Stokes and Elizabeth Combs. His father, Webster H. Kline '02, who died in 1951, was in Quadrangle Club and later president of Burke Steel Co. in Rochester, N.Y.

In 19341935, Bill took time off from Princeton to work as a ranch hand in Colorado. After college, he started working with the Burke Steel Co. and was a V.P. in charge of sales and owner of onesixth of the stock.

By 1957, had been in an automobile accident and was on retirement pay. In 1951, he had sold '37 Chevrolet raffle tickets like hot cakes through his stepson Roy in South Korea. By 1960, he was in Guatemala and El Salvador as an independent sales engineer, later Pittsburgh, and then various nursing and sales jobs. The trail then led to Dallas, then Denver as promotion manager for Burke Steel Co., but by 1976, he had disappeared in Florida, to turn up again in Rochester in 1990.

The Class of 1937