William Henry Hanna Jr. ’29

BILL DIED on Sept. 19, 1989. He prepared for college at Exeter and Poly Prep. At Princeton he played freshman lacrosse and scrub football, and rowed on the 150-lb. crew. He was in the Triangle Club and belonged to Charter. His roommates were Bob McConnell and Ben Page.

Bill went to Cornell Medical College, graduated in 1935, and was a resident in ophthalmology at Presbyterian Hospital. He was in private practice until 1942, when he went into the U.S.N.R. Medical Corps as a lieutenant. He served in the U.S. Naval Dispensary in Washington and then with the Medical Battalion of the Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific Theater. He left the Navy in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant commander, and went into the Yater Clinic, a private medical group in Washington. He then joined with Dr. Frederick Simpson in an ophthalmology practice.

In 1939 Bill married Helaine Dorothy Svets. They had three children, Hope, Eve, and Jay Ross, and they survive. In 1966 he married Claire Edith Cavell, and she survives, together with their two children, William H. III and Heather. The class extends sincere sympathy to Bill's family.

The Class of 1929