William M. Marquet ’51

SKIP DIED Jan. 11, 1992, in Jacksonville, while on a birding trip to the Everglades. He was born in Syracuse and graduated from Brooklyn Technical H.S. At Princeton he majored in basic engineering, was a member of the Orange Key and Cloister Inn, and roomed with Ed Kepler. He received his M.S. in engineering from Columbia in 1952. From 1954 to 1956, he was a member .of the Army's scientific and technical program.

Skip joined Minneapolis Honeywell and worked for them in France, There he met his wife, Claudine, and Edwin Link, inventor of the Link Trainer, Link, a member of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, on Cape Cod, persuaded Skip to join WHOI. he was an outstanding engineer there from 1963 until his death. He supervised construction of the I J.S.'s first deepsea submersible, ALVIN, and won a Navy Public Service Citation for his contribution to the ALVIN team that located and recovered that famous Hbomb lost off the coast of Palomares, Spain, in 1969. In 1980 Skip was named principal engineer, WHOI's highest position for engineers.

In 1981 Skip established the institution's Deep Submergence Laboratory with Dr. Robert Ballard, the locator and photographer of the Titanic, and in 1989 he began developing fiberopticbased underwater vehicles of the next generation.

Skip's death was a blow to the international oceanographic community. He had the rare ability to see the "big picture" and to "guide and encourage team members to pull together and do a more comprehensive and professional job, while viewing it to be challenging, fun, and worthwhile."

In addition to his widow, Skip is survived by his daughters Catherine and Stephanie, his sister Melanie Burrell, and his mother, Berta. The Class has lost a

distinguished member and offers its deep condolences to Skip's family.

The Class of 1951