William M. Larrabee ’25

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Businessman, environmentalist, and retired executive of AT&T, William M. Larrabee died Aug. 31, 2000, at Fairfax, Va. He was 97.

William was a longtime resident of Great Neck, N.Y., and in 1983 he moved to Virginia. He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton and held an MBA from Harvard.

He served on the local and national board of directors of the Nature Conservancy of the US and also was a professor and dean in the graduate school of business of Long Island U., in New York. In retirement he continued to be physically active in worldwide travel, golf, and activities centered on wildlife photography.

Survivors include his sons, Robert and Allan, five grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. After 63 years of marriage, Dorothy Larrabee predeceased her husband in 1991.

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