William Lewis Phillips ’34

BILL PHILLIPS the financial V.P. of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., of Newark, NJ., in charge of all the company's investments, before he retired in 1976, died Apr. 29, 1992, ten days after his 80th birthday. In his retirement he lived in Francestown, N.H., in a 1790 farmhouse with ten acres of fields and woods. "I spend my days," he wrote not long ago, "gardening, cutting firewood, repairing the house, mowing fields enjoying life now much more than ever before."

Bill started with Mutual Benefit in 1935 as a securities analyst; he was elected financial V.P. in 1970. Before he moved to New Hampshire, he did volunteer work for the United Hospitals and served as secretary of the board of managers and as a trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital in Newark. After Princeton he studied at Rutgers, N.Y.U., Columbia, and Newark College of Engineering.

Bill's wife, Vera (Bourveau) died last New Year's Day. Surviving are three sons, William, Kenneth '62, and Michael. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934