William C. Gardiner Jr. ’54

Bill Gardiner died Nov. 17, 2000, following a bicycle accident.

Born in Niagara Falls, N.Y., Bill majored in chemistry at Princeton. He was a member of Campus Club, played 150 lb. football, was president of the Student Unitarian Fellowship, and was a member of the Chapel Choir. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the U. of Heidelberg, obtained his PhD from Harvard in chemistry, and became widely published in scientific journals. He was awarded a second Fulbright scholarship, including a Humboldt Fellowship. The class extends its sympathy to his mother, brothers, his wife, three daughters, and two grandsons.

The Class of 1954