William M. Doerflinger ’31 *32

Bill was born July 30, 1910, in Brooklyn and died Dec. 23, 2000, at Fellowship Village in Basking Ridge, N.J. For a large portion of his life, he was a resident of the Convent Station section of Morris Township, N.J., before moving to Fellowship Village in 1999.

He prepared at Staten Island Academy and, at Princeton, became a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the pistol team, was a news editor for the Daily Princetonian, an editorial writer and assistant photographer for the Bric-a-Brac, and a member of Court Club.

Bill's career in publishing began with an assistant editorship at Macmillan's, followed by a year as managing editor of the American Mercury. In 1941 he joined E. P. Dutton, book publishers, where he ended up a senior editor, publishing hundreds of books. He also earned an MA from Princeton and from Harvard in 1939. During WWII he served for three years in the overseas branch of the office of war information, and in 1933-34 was a news editor and correspondent in the psychological warfare branch of the Army in Africa, Italy, and France.

Bill's wife, Anne Homer, died in 1995. Surviving are three sons, Jonathan Warner, William, and Thomas, and two daughters, Anne Bishop and Katherine, 10 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. The class extends its sympathy to the entire family.

The Class of 1965