William Booth Trainer Jr. ’34

BILL (PIE) TRAINER, a retired executive in the electrical materials manufacturing business in Richmond, died Apr. 8, 1991, it has just been learned, after a lingering illness. His passing was described as a blessing for him.

A native of Pittsburgh, where his father, a member of the Class of 1897, was with the Goodrich Rubber Co., Pie settled in Richmond in 1952 as the district manager for National Electric Corp. He had worked for National Electric since 1936, in Pittsburgh and then in N.Y.C. During WWII he was a civil service "loanee" with the Bureau of Ships in Washington.

"I picked the kind of work I did," he once explained, "because the electrical business always interested me, and jobs weren't exactly hanging on trees in 1936."

Pie is survived by his widow, the former Doris Lang Clark, a graduate of Wells College, whom he married in 1938; three daughters, Jeanette, Susan, and Barbara; a son, William B. III; and eight grandchildren. They have our sympathies.

The Class of 1934