William C. Hughes ’50

Bill died June 21, 2018, in Tempe, Ariz. His career in education spanned 31 years.

He came to Princeton from Abington (Pa.) High School. At Princeton he played varsity baseball for three years, sang in the Glee Club, was president of the Wesley Foundation, and belonged to Campus Club. He majored in history.

By the time Bill started working in the classroom, he had spent a year of graduate study at Temple; two years in the Army, including 13 months in Korea; and married Carolyn Mae Ashby in Philadelphia in 1952. Following his military stint, he earned a doctor of education degree in education administration from Columbia. He concluded his career in education when he retired from the White Plains (N.Y.) School District in 1984.

In 1986 he and Carolyn moved to Ruskin, Fla., where he took leadership roles in many volunteer organizations. His lifelong hobbies were tennis, birding, singing, and reading. Retirement also saw travel throughout the United States and abroad. In 2000 he and Carolyn left Florida and moved west to Friendship Village in Tempe.

Bill is survived by Carolyn, three daughters, five grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.