William Freethy Coan ’29

Bill died Nov. 4, 1998. He prepared for college at Farmington [N.H.] H.S. and Exeter. At Princeton he was on the debating team and varsity swimming team; he roomed with Larry Garraett. His business career was entirely with New Jersey Bell Telephone, where he was director of manufacture and delivery of directories. In 1969, he retired and was so lucky as to make his lifelong hobby and recreation his fulltime activity. Bill began playing bridge at the age of six, and after his retirement from Bell he played and taught contract bridge and directed bridge programs. He was a life master and member of the American Contract Bridge League. He served on the Rahway, N.J., board of education and was vestryman and treasurer of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Rahway.

In 1935 he married Elizabeth Woodruff, and she survives him, as do their daughters Constance Musa, Alice Larsen, and Margaret Loytty. The class extends sincere sympathy to Bill's family.

The Class of 1929