William C. Frank ’37

Bill Frank died May 24, 1999, of congestive heart failure and emphysema, leaving a wife, Caroline; children of his first wife, Virginia Glendon, William Jr., and Leslie; and six grandchildren.

Bill played football and baseball at Germantown Academy but left Princeton in sophomore year after a bad automobile accident in which his younger brother and a girl were killed.

After writing advertising copy and editing house organs at Barron Collier in NYC and three years in the purchasing department of Bendix Aviation in Philadelphia, Bill entered the Army Medical Corps in 1944 as a surgical technician, going overseas in the European theater. He spent a year working on ambulances, going in and out of the critical Battle of the Bulge; he also acted as company interpreter.

After the war he was a salesman with Precision Tool & Engineering Corp. in Philadelphia, then sold valves, piping, and fittings for Cooney Bros. Plumbing Supplies and later was with R. S. McCracken & Sons selling engineering equipment to clients such as RCA and Campbell Corp. He had been retired for 25 years, 16 of which he had spent in Delray Beach, Fla.

The Class of 1937