William Montague Geer III ’44

Monty Geer died Mar. 10, 1997, at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston following open heart surgery. He was 75. He came to us from Kent School, and for three years roomed with Brad Murphy and Pete Schultz. At Princeton he majored in psychology. His club was Colonial.

Monty left Princeton in 1943 with his AB, and after service in the Marine Corps, worked briefly with United Fruit Co. before joining the Irving Trust Co. in 1944 in NYC. Thus began a career in banking that spanned 40 years and took him to the Philadelphia National Bank as trust officer, and, in 1967, to Quincy, Mass., where he joined the South Shore Bank, from which he retired in 1983 as second v.p. He was a chartered financial analyst and a member of the Boston Security Analysts Assn.

Monty was an avid reader, gardener, beach-walker, sometime golfer, and doting grandfather who enjoyed his home in Duxbury, where he had lived for 30 years.

To Barbara, his wife of 52 years; his children, Gerald, William IV, and Pamela; his brother, John; and five grandchildren, the class extends its sympathy.

The Class of 1944