William N. Lane III ’65

Bill Lane died of a recurrence of cancer Sept. 20, 2002, at his home in Lake Forest, Ill. At Princeton, he majored in economics, took his meals at Charter and roomed with Tom Fisher, Chip Gillespie, Ted Doering, Jan Vlcek, Van Williams, Doug Brody, Dick Missner, and Morgan Shipway.

After Princeton, Bill joined his father's company, General Binding Corp., and turned it into Lane Industries, the dominant company in binding and laminating office documents, and one of the largest privately owned companies in the country, with operations in security, farming, ranching, hotels, and radio. A quiet force among our Chicago classmates, he frequently hosted Princeton gatherings, and served as a trustee of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, and the Chicago Zoological Society/Brookfield Zoo, and as a board member at Wallace Computer. As the Chicago Tribune put it, he was "a blunt and worldly man with a penchant for big game hunting and a strong desire to diversify his family's business."

He is survived by his wife, Mary, and son, Carl. The class expresses its condolences to them on the loss of one of our larger-than-life stalwarts.

The Class of 1965