William James Askin III ’51

Bill Askin died Oct. 30, 2003, of complications from bone marrow disease.

Born in Pittsburgh in 1929, he came to us from Shady Side Academy, where he played football and golf, and was president of his class. At Princeton he was an economics major and active in the Glee Club, Triangle, and Colonial Club. Loyall Edge, Jim Hardie, and Keith Schnebly were his roommates.

Bill earned his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1953 and then enrolled in the Army Financial Management Program. He was a captain in the Army and served with the CIA. In 1961 he graduated from Georgetown Law School, and until retirement in 2000, practiced law and operated his own securities firm in DC. He was a member of the Congressional Country Club, the Princeton Club of NYC, and Les Ambassadeurs in London, among others.

Bill is survived by his sister, Jane Parsons-Fein, and his nephews, Brooks Tolman Kent Parsons, Nathaniel Tuck Parsons, and Nicholas Todd Parsons.

The Class of 1951