William Frederick Poten ’31

BILL DIED on Oct. 24, 1989, at his home in St. Simon's Island, Ga., after a long illness. He prepared for Princeton at the Peddie School and balanced his academic program in college with participation on the freshman wrestling and basketball teams, three years on the Class football team, and as a member of the Student Employment Executive Committee.

After graduating, Bill became a ship broker with the D.R. Dearborn Company in Manhattan. In WWII he was assistant V.P. and general manager of War Emergency Tankers, Inc. and supplied oil to naval vessels in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Mediterranean. He was later founder and president of Poten and Partners, Inc. He retired in 1973. Through the years he served Princeton well as a regional chairman for Annual Giving, as treasurer of the Princeton Club of Northwest New Jersey, and as Princeton Univ. Fund V.P., region 15.

Surviving Bill are his widow, Clara; two daughters, Constance of Missoula, Mont., and Ann Martin of Atlanta; two sons, Peter '52 of Elizabeth Bay, Australia, and William of Bergenfield, NJ.; a sister, Carol Minelli of Cleveland; and ten grandchildren. We share with them all a sense of their loss.