William Kenneth Frizzell ’50

Ken Frizzell died of a massive heart attack at his home in Santa Barbara on Mar. 20, 2000. He was 71.

Ken prepared in the Knox City, Tex., school system and spent his last two years at Lawrenceville. He participated in dramatics, was in the Glee Club, and played tennis.

At Princeton Ken was an arranger for the Tigertones and was in the Triangle Club. A talented musician, he often led sing-alongs as the accompanying pianist at Key and Seal.

Following graduation he worked briefly for LA architect Aaron Green and again, for a brief time, at John Lautner's office in Hollywood before enlisting in the navy. Ken was aboard the carrier Leyte for a couple of years.

He earned a master's in architecture from Oklahoma U. and taught at the U. of Arkansas. Ken joined the Edward Stone office in NYC in 1955 in time to be given the assignment to design and then to supervise the construction of the US Pavilion at the Brussels world's fair. There followed a number of projects worldwide. It was during this time that he was brutally attacked by a knife-wielding intruder at his Gramercy Park apartment in New York and nearly lost his life.

Ken spent the latter part of his career with the firm of Frizzell, Hill, Moorhouse, Beaubois in California.

He is survived by his son, John Callender, and his daughter, Jane Callender, to whom the class offers its deepest sympathies.

The Class of 1950