One of the many fine lawyers in our class, Bill died Nov. 3, 2022, in Summit, N.J.
He came to Princeton from Newark Academy, graduating cum laude, an honor he also achieved at Princeton and Harvard Law School. At Princeton, he took his meals at Key & Seal and participated in many extracurricular activities, including the swimming team, the Camera Club, and the Savoyards. He was also business manager of Theatre Intime and art director of the Outing Club. Bill majored in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. His senior-year roommates were George Oram and Robin Lincoln.
Following his graduation from law school, Bill became assistant district attorney for New York County. He then joined the Bell Systems, serving as an attorney at various times for New York Telephone Co., Western Electric, and AT&T, where he specialized in antitrust law. After retiring from the corporate world, he became an adjunct professor at Seton Hall Law School and practiced law in a partnership with Dr. Winston Porter, former assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. He fully retired in 2021, and in our 65th-reunion yearbook, he stated, “I do not like retirement. Nor old age generally” — feelings that probably are held by many of us.
Bill married Joyce McKenna in 1959, and they had two daughters, Elizabeth and Jane. His daughters survive him, as well as six grandchildren. In the obituary written by his family they called him a “dedicated father and grandfather” who found “immeasurable joy being ‘Papa.’ ”