William Charles Guenther ’36

Bill died Sept. 17, 1996. He was 82. He prepared at Newark Academy and was at Princeton through his sophomore year. He also studied at the U. of Heidelberg and at the Sorbonne, in Paris.

During the 1940s he studied architecture and designed a Frank Lloyd Wright-influenced country home, which was imitated in the northern New Jersey area. He taught English literature at Williston Academy and the U. of Hartford, where his lifelong friend Joseph Doyle '37 was dean. In his retirement, Bill continued to teach English classes and classes on American poets, particularly Marianne Moore, whose thematic content had been a subject of extensive literary debate with Kenneth Burke, the philosopher of literary form who was a neighbor of Bill's for many years.

Bill is survived by a son, John, a daughter, Jane Jacobson, and two granddaughters. He expressed fondness for Princeton and our class. He was glad to participate in an important class project for our 60th reunion.

The Class of 1936