William W. Schoening ’65

Bill died of heart failure Nov. 5, 2011.

He came to us from John Burroughs School in St. Louis, where he was active in football, basketball, and track. He majored in math at Princeton and belonged to Quadrangle Club. After graduation he worked as a systems engineer at McDonnell Douglas, later Boeing. He was a Boeing Technical Fellow, and served as president of the International Council on Systems Engineering, teaching classes for Boeing in Taiwan, Turkey, and China.

Bill and his wife, Sue, were avid birders, pursuing this pastime in Australia, New Zealand, England, and Costa Rica as well as the United States. They were fixtures on the theater scene in St. Louis, where they were longtime residents while raising their son, Rob.

Bill is survived by Sue, Rob, and grandsons Oliver and Jack. The class sends condolences to them on the untimely loss of this fine, quiet, steady gentleman and family man.