William Gilbert Kayser Jr. ’40

Gil died July 30, 2007, in the Princeton area.

He prepared at Germantown (Pa.) High School and Germantown Friends School. At Princeton, he majored in chemistry, was a member of the Princeton Engineering Society, the chemistry club, and the fencing team.

Gil was a research chemist with Allied Chemical Corp. during World War II. After various positions in the organic chemical industry, he joined Pennsalt Chemical Corp. in 1956 and worked there until his retirement in 1986. He was director of the organic-chemical division and director of business development.

During the 1970s, he was active in Washington, D.C., with trade negotiations as a member of the industry-sector advisory committee on industrial chemicals. He was an active member of the alumni association, chairing the class’ 50th reunion and joining his classmates on several trips abroad.

Gil was an avid member of the Princeton Garden Statesmen Barbershop Quartet and sang in the All Saints’ Church choir for many years.

His first wife, Joan [née Bach] died in 1979; his second wife, Luna [née Mitchell Heron], died in 2003. His survivors include a daughter, Virginia P. Kayser; a son, Kenneth; a grandson; and a great-granddaughter. His classmates extend their sincere condolences to them.