William B. Shepard ’37

Bill Shepard died June 17, 1995, leaving his wife, Mary, whom he married in Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., in 1944 before going overseas; three sons, Bill Jr., Richard, and David; and seven grandchildren.

Bill prepared at Peddie. At Princeton he majored in politics. He was on the lacrosse team freshman year, 150-pound football team, and on the interclub squash, football, and swimming teams. He was a member of Cannon.

For 42 years, he dealt in school supplies with J. L. Hammett Co., as salesman, sales manager, v.p., and director. He retired in 1979. By 1983, he was in Hilton Head with a winter address of Flat Rock, N.C.

He was in the army 1941-1946 in the field artillery. He fought in campaigns in northern France, the Ardennes, the Rhineland, and central Europe, winding up on V-E Day as a major in southeastern Germany. He earned a Bronze Star and Croix de Guerre.

In 1952, he was living in Summit on five and a half acres and raising chickens, capons, ducks, geese, and turkeys, doing Cub Scouts and working out of Newark. He continued his boating hobby, buying and selling 27 ft. to 37 ft. power boats in Bay Head. He cruised during the summers, mostly up the Hudson to Lake Champlain, Ontario, and the St. Lawrence River. He made annual fishing trips to Maine. Our condolences go to the family.

The Class of 1937