William Prescott Hersey ’63

BILL, A selfemployed architectural illustrator who lived in San Francisco, died suddenly of a heart attack March 31,1990.

Born Sept. 4, 1940, in Boston, he attended Exeter and then majored in architecture at Princeton, drawing a thesis of "serial vision." He belonged to Key and Seal, was an officer of Triangle Club, sang in the Glee Club, and was a P.J.&B. Player. His postgraduate degree was in architecture from Yale. Bill stayed on in New Haven with the firm of Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull & Whitaker until 1969, when he became a freelancer.

Three years later he moved to San Francisco, where he became highly regarded for penandink renderings of projects, such as Sea Ranch in Calif. and Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans, both designed by architect Charles Moore. Bill also lectured on architectural art at U.C.L.A. and Tulane.

The Class shares its grief with his survivors, including his parents, Francis P. '30 and Mary; brother, Peter '56; and sister, Nancy Paulsen. He was the nephew of Winthrop R'28 and David W.'63

The Class of 1963