William R. Barnes Jr. ’59

Bill, born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, was preceded at Princeton by his father, William Barnes Sr., of the Class of 1928. Bill prepared for Princeton at the Hillfield School in Hamilton, Ontario, where he was in the debating and drama clubs, boxed, and belonged to the football and track teams. At Princeton, he was a member of the freshman fencing team and Theatre Intime, and he volunteered at the Jamesburg School for Boys.

Bill left Princeton midway through sophomore year to attend Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, where he studied in an honors program in geology, including doing geological work in northern Canada during his summer breaks. In 1961, he requested no further contact with Princeton, and we only recently learned that he had died Jan. 7, 2018.