William L. Ruigh ’27 *32

DR. WILLIAM RUIGH DIED Mar. 20, 1994, at the Princeton Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center, after a long illness. Born in Tokyo of missionary parents, Bill prepared at Mercersburg Academy. At Princeton, he won the Howe Prize in analytical chemistry and was a member ofWhig Hall. He was a member of Sigma Xi fraternity. He also earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at Princeton. Bill worked for several chemical companies, including Merck and

Squibb, while living in Princeton. He then moved to Philadelphia, and worked with Univ. of Pennsylvania medical students, while writing several articles for chemical publications.

During WWII, he researched for the O.S.R.D. at the Squibb Institute for Medical Research. He held many patents on chemical compounds. From 194857, he was an associate professor of microbiology at Rutgers, and from 195761, he did research at WrightPatterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. From 1961 until he retired, in 1973, he administrated grants for the Defense Dept. in Washington.

In 1928, he married Mary S. Stockton, a graduate of Miss Fine's School. They had two children, Pamela and Anna; two grandchildren; and a great-grandson. The class extends its sympathy to his widow (who lives at the Princeton Nursing Home); his sister Eleanor VanVechten; and his daughter Pamela. We mourn the loss of a brilliant chemist.

The Class of 1927