William C. Weisenfels ’55

Bill Weisenfels was born Jan. 9, 1933, in St. Louis.

At Maplewood-Richmond Heights High, where Bill participated in basketball, track, football, and the National Honor Society, he prepared for Princeton and for an extremely competitive curriculum that inculcated in him a passion for perfection and the ability to accommodate and manage change. These traits served him well for 37 years at 
DuPont, where he had management responsibilities in software development and its application to manufacturing, sales, and financial functions.

A fine basketball player at Princeton, Bill may have loved birds more than his ability to hit nothing but the basketball net. After his retirement in 1992, he was active in his church and enjoyed painting and gardening. He was an avid birdwatcher as a member of the Delmarva Ornithological Society, and enjoyed camping in the Tuolomne Meadows at Yosemite, “one of the most beautiful places on earth.”

On Nov. 18, 2011, Bill died of pneumonia in Wilmington, Del., leaving wife Sue; progeny Anne Caldwell and Thomas Weisenfels; his brother, Jack; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. To them all, the class extends its sympathy and sense of loss.