William Metcalf III ’45

Will, our oldest living classmate, died May 29, 1998, in an auto accident in Sewickley, Pa.

Will entered Princeton from The Hill with '43 but almost immediately transferred to our class. He joined Tower Club. Will's Princeton career was interrupted by service with the Marine Corps as an antiaircraft gunner aboard USS Columbia in the Pacific theater, where he was awarded the Purple Heart. He took his AB in history in 1946 and joined the United Engineering Foundry Co. in Youngstown, Ohio.

In 1953 he married Edith Anne Binney. After employment with American Express as a travel representative, he joined the Reuben Donnelly Corp.; he later began a teaching career at Sewickley Academy in 1962. Will was active in the Boy Scouts, as a Sunday school teacher, and as a member of the Allegheny Country Club in Sewickley. Eventually Will owned and operated the U. School in Pittsburgh, leaving the field in 1983 to join the Southeastern Petroleum Corp.

Will, who earned a master's from Duquesne U., was devoted to education and downhill skiing.

In addition to Anne, Will is survived by children Edith Metcalf Gingras, Kathleen Metcalf Edens, Christine, Mary, Brooks, and William, a sister, Anne, and eight grandchildren, to all of whom the class extends its sympathy.

The Class of 1945