William Langstaff Crow ’33

Bill Crow died Nov. 29, 1996, after an extended illness. He grew up in Rye, N.Y., and prepared for Princeton at Hotchkiss.

In college he played freshman soccer, was advertising manager of the Tiger, and skippered the winning intercollegiate yacht; he was commodore of the Princeton Yacht Club. He was a member and officer of Cap and Gown. In 1936 he married Barbara Baker in Grosse Point, Mich.

After a year in South America with W. R. Grace and Co., Bill joined the family business, the William L. Crow Construction Co., in NYC, which had been founded by his great-grandfather in 1840. He became its head when he was 26 at the death of his father. The company completed major projects in the U.S. and abroad, including the Princeton Club of New York.

During WWII, Bill served in the Army Corps of Engineers in the Mideast and rose to the rank of major.

Bill was an active, widely known,l and highly regarded leader of our class. He was an effective fund-raiser. His son Bill '63 properly refers to his father's "abiding sense of obligation to repay some of the benefits of the education he received at Hotchkiss and Princeton."

We extend our sympathy to Bar, to Bill Jr., and to the Crow's four daughters, Margo C. Reis, Barbara, Sandra C. Shek, and Ella C. Hayes.

The Class of 1933