William G. Lewis ’34

BILL "KAYO" LEWIS, a retired v.p. of Campbell Soup Co., died unexpectedly of a heart attack, May 15, 1994, less than three weeks before he was to take office at our 60th reunion as the class's v.p.

Kayo's wife, Helen (Kirk), a Wellesley alumna whom he married in 1940, died in 1985. After that, he moved to a retirement community near Wilming­ton, Del., and became increasingly active in class affairs. In 1988 and 1992, he helped run our mini-reunions at Water's Edge, in Connecticut, in con­junction with Yale football games in New Haven. He was also active in the affairs of his prep school, Pingry, and he joined his old friend Lank Seibert at a Pingry alumni party shortly before his death.

Kayo enjoyed telling friends how he acquired his nickname. As a young man at a summer camp, he inadvertently became a participant in an exhibition-boxing match and was kayoed 23 seconds into the first round.

Surviving are his two daughters, Phoebe Sabas and Susanna Ferry, and two grandchildren. A brother, David F. '29, died in 1971.