William Dwight ’25

Bill Dwight died in Charleston, S.C., June 4, 1996. He was born in Holyoke, Mass., Aug. 10, 1903.

He prepared at Andover, and at Princeton he was manager of the freshman football team, and a member of Tiger Inn. He roomed with John Jenney. He left in 1924 to get a degree in journalism at Columbia. He joined the Holyoke Transcript, founded in 1882 by his father upon whose death in 1930 he became managing editor under his mother as publisher. He succeeded her in 1957. He branched out into radio and then television and also acquired newspapers in Greensboro, Mass., and Concord, N.H.

His many awards included the Distinguished Service to Journalism from Columbia, election to the Academy of New England Journalists, and was president of the American Assn. of Newspaper Publishers. He was a v.p. of the Associated Press. During WWII he was on the War Shipping Administration. He was a member of the several boards and was a vestryman at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Holyoke.

He held several political offices and was a delegate to the national Republican conventions in 1948 and 1964.

After retirement in 1982, he moved to Sarasota, Fla. He is survived by the former Virginia Robinson Haven of Charleston, whom he married in 1994, two sons, William Jr. '51 and Donald '53, a daughter, Marilyn Wilson, 14 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, and a sister, Laura. His wife of 64 years, Dorothy Rathburn, died in 1992.

The Class of 1925