William D. Lamdin Jr. ’50

Bill died Oct. 11, 2014, in Cody, Wyo.

Born in Baltimore, he attended Gilman School. At Princeton, Bill majored in history and belonged to Tower. After graduation, he fostered his lifelong love of adventure and nature by working as a flagman in Wyoming and climbing in the Tetons. The draft cut this short. Bill was inducted into the Army, completed Officer Candidate School, and commanded an ambulance company in Korea as a second lieutenant.

He returned to Baltimore to earn a master’s degree from the University of Maryland School of Social Work in 1969. As he wrote, his “smartest move” was marrying Patricia Killough in 1955.

He was a social worker until 1971, when he and Pat loaded their family of six children, a dog, cats, and two ponies into two old trucks and journeyed to Meeteetse, Wyo. There they bought a small ranch and named it “Two Cabin Ranch.” It served as their home, and in the summer as a camp for boys and girls.

Bill was a real estate agent for nearly 30 years before illness hospitalized him in 2008. He was an advocate of Wyoming’s natural beauty and fought to protect it from commercial intrusions.

Our condolences go to his survivors: his wife; two of her children; four of their children; nine grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.