William Stanley Jr. ’41

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BILL STANLEY died of cancer May 21, 1992, at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. He was a senior partner in the law firm of Covington & Burling, where he had practiced real estate and trust law for 34 years. He is survived by Janina Hanin Stanley, his wife by a happy second marriage, in 1969, after his marriage to the former Margaret Fleming Bell ended in divorce.

At Princeton Bill was known as in enthusiastic and charming man. A member of Cannon Club, he roomed with Henry Briggs, Frank Supplee, Clark Wesley, and Bill Quin1by. Like so many others in the Class, lie took tip flying and earned his license, only to be turned down by the I I.S. Air Corps because lie had a polio impaired leg. But the Navy intelligence took him, and he served in Cuba (hiring WWII. This was followed by Harvard Law School.

Bill was counsel to the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Dumbarton Oaks of Harvard Univ., and he served as a trustee of the Clients Security Trust Fund of tire D.C. Bar and the Dallas M. Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts. A member of the Metropolitan Club and the Maryland Club of Baltimore, he worshiped at Christ Episcopal Church in Georgetown.

In addition to Nina, Bill is Survived by four children from his first marriage, daughters Amy Anthony and Margaret S. Stanley, sons William III and Robert H.; a sister, Mary Jaire Stanley Dunn; and three grandchildren. To them all we extend deep sympathy.

The Class of 1941

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