William F. Martin ’48

Bill was born May 27, 1926, in New York City and died Jan. 29, 2015. He noted in our 50th-reunion book that as an active Roman Catholic layman, both in college and after, he “assisted and organized credit unions, cooperatives, and [other] community organizations.”

At Princeton he majored in politics, graduating in 1949. Bill had been mentored by the eminent philosopher Jacques Maritain, then at the Institute for Advanced Study, and wrote his thesis on Maritain’s political philosophy.

Bill married Beverly Byrne, and the family spent 20 years in Europe, returning to the United States in 1996. He then started a firm providing an information service about literary agents and their clients in New York.

He is survived by Beverly, seven children, and 12 grandchildren. We have been unable to make contact with the Martin family to obtain any further information about Bill’s seemingly varied and productive career and life.