William Hall Brinckerhoff ’51

Bill was born on Christmas Day 1929, the son of William Weeks Brinckerhoff ’26. He died of cancer Nov. 12, 2006.

A cum laude graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Bill majored in chemistry at Princeton. He was active in WPRU, was a member of the camera and Republican clubs, and was president of Cloister Inn. He roomed with Jack Lauff.

Upon receiving a master’s in chemical engineering from Johns Hopkins in 1953, he served for two years in the Army Chemical Corps. For 30 years thereafter Bill was a writer and account manager for numerous technical-product companies at their advertising and public-relations agencies, after which he served as president and chairman of the National Institute of Social Sciences in New York and Palm Beach.

His marriage to Deborah Beard ended in divorce. In 1989 he married the former Natalie Grace, who survives him, as do his children, Carol Henderson and William; his stepchildren, Edouard and Morgan Dejoux; grandchildren Madeline, Graham, and Pierce Henderson and Andrew and Emily Brinckerhoff; his brother, Sidney Burr Brinckerhoff ’56; and his cousin, Peter R. Brinckerhoff ’64. Bill was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars of the State of Florida and of the Holland Society.