William H. Forsyth ’30

The class lost a distinguished member when Bill Forsyth died in Hightstown, N.J., May 14, 2003. He was 96.

Bill was curator emeritus of medieval art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and helped transform piles of old masonry into the Cloisters on land donated by John Rockefeller Jr. in Fort Tryon Park, in NYC. Bill was the last living member of the staff that oversaw the Met's project to re-create the Middle Ages. Bill documented the project in a 1992 publication Studies in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Cloisters.

Bill came to us from Hotchkiss. At Princeton he was a member of Court Club. He sang in the Chapel Choir. His junior year he roomed in Dod with Gordon Craig.

He is survived by four daughters, Agnes Kuenkler, Caroline Elischer, Marian Weekly, and Theresa Hare; a son, William Jr.; 10 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. His wife of 53 years, Agnes Mitchell Forsyth, died in 1995. The class extends its sympathy.

The Class of 1930