William Sipple Lambert ’49

One of our class's youngest members, Bill Lambert, died at his home in Seattle, Wash., Mar. 30, 1995, following a brief illness.

Bill was born Feb. 15, 1929, in Washington, D.C., and prepared for Princeton at Phillips Exeter Academy. At Princeton he majored in SPIA, graduating with honors in 1948, and was a member of Key and Seal Club.

He worked in Paris with the then economic cooperation administration from 1949 to the early 1950s, then with the State Department executive secretariat. In 1953 he moved to Seattle and the Boeing Co. and worked on the administration of government contracts. When he retired in 1989, Bill was Boeing's corporate director of business practices.

Bill married Beverly Conrad in 1950, and they had two sons, Kent and Gray. Beverly passed away in 1983, and Gray died of complications from AIDS in 1991 at the age of 33. Gray had become well known in Seattle for his work with gay and lesbian youth. (Lambert House, a youth center, was named in his honor.) Among his bequests, Bill left $450,000 to the Pride Foundation to help carry on his son's work.

Bill is survived by Kent, his mother, Mrs. Arthur G. Lambert w'22, and his brother, Arthur G. Lambert Jr. '57. We share in their loss of a most forthright, gentle, and caring man.

The Class of 1949