William Snyder Sherman ’41

Bill died Sept.12, 2002, after a long illness. A native of Albany, N.Y., he attended the Albany Academy and graduated from Andover in 1937.

Freshman year he roomed with Al Van Court but left Princeton after that one year. He served with distinction during WWII, from 1940 to 1945, in Australia and New Guinea as a captain in the Army Trans-

portation Corps, Marine Maintenance and Repair.

After the service, he attended the Newark College of Engineering, and received his degree in 1949. He joined Gray Manu-

facturing in Pittsburgh as director of sales from 1953 to 1957. In 1957 he began his long and distinguished career with Ensign Bickford in Simsbury, Conn., retiring as vice president of corporate research and development in 1973.

In 1989, Bill moved to Hobe Sound, where he was living when he died.

He is survived by his wife, Joyce Kroening Sherman, daughter Pamela Binder, son Thomas, and 13 grandchildren.

The Class of 1941