William Prizer Jr. ’44

William Prizer died Apr. 23, 1997, in Ft. Myers, Fla. He was 77. He prepared at Exeter and Haverford, and at Princeton was active in freshman football and squash. He left Princeton in Jan. 1941.

Bill was a mentor to a generation of young men. He taught and coached athletics at the Haverford School and Haverford College. Basketball was his passion, and he coached several secondary and college teams to league championships. In the 1960s and 1970s he owned and directed a popular summer camp for boys, Chimney Point, in Jefferson, Maine.

His grandfather, Agnew Dice, was president of the Reading Railroad, and at an early age Bill developed a lasting interest in railroading. He was an avid collector of toy trains and constructed in his home in Bryn Mawr, Pa., what was thought to be one of the largest model railroad layouts in the state.

In 1944 he married Jessie Delaney, who predeceased him in 1979. He is survived by a daughter, Jessie Doerr, two sons, Peter and William, three grandchildren, and his longtime friend, Mary Annis Bennett.

The Class of 1944