William Janvier Eiman ’45

Bill Eiman died Nov. 26, 1998, after battling cancer, at his home in Philadelphia.

Bill prepared at Haverford, was a member of Colonial Club, and rowed on the freshman and 150-lb. crew. His Princeton education was interrupted by service with the Eighth Marines in the Pacific; he took his degree in economics in 1947 before starting a lifetime career in the pharmaceutical industry at Smith Kline & French Laboratories in Philadelphia. Bill left SKF in 1970 to become involved in a yacht-chartering business in the Caribbean, owning boats in the Virgins and writing and publishing a cruising guide for the St. Maarten/St. Martin region. Bill spent another two decades in pharmaceutical research at IMS America, Inc. before retiring in 1988. While at SKF Bill produced films for that company's March of Medicine television series, and his documentary on the work of a medical missionary in central Africa, Mogambo, won an Emmy in 1958.

Jim married the former Jane Patrick in 1958. She survives him, as do their daughter Jeannette and a brother John W. '43, to all of whom the class extends its deep sympathy.

The Class of 1945