William Wallace Hubbell ’41
Bill died May 23, 2004.
A native of Buffalo, he graduated from the Nichols School. At Princeton, Bill majored in politics, played freshman football and basketball, and was manager of the Parking Squad. He was a manager of Quadrangle Club, rooming junior year with Bruce Alger and Jack Turner, and senior year with Tom Mederos and Bernard Griffin.
During World War II, Bill joined the Air Corps and went through OCS to serve as a supply officer at the Burtonwood Air Depot Base in England. He separated as a captain in 1945. Bill then went to work for the Gates Rubber Co. in Denver, Colo., becoming a supervisor with the automotive sales division. In 1954 he joined KLZ TV-Time Life in Denver, selling advertising. Bill retired in 1982 from KMGH-TV.
Active in the Denver community, Bill was on the board of the Denver Museum of Natural History, a member of the Denver Zoological Foundation, and president of the Denver Advertising Foundation. He served on the vestry and as senior warden for St. Michael and All Angels' Church.
Bill was predeceased by his wife of 56 years, Dorothy Saunderson Hubbell, and by a grandson. He is survived by daughters Mary Anne Sehorn and Josephine Thome; son William W. Jr.; nine grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
The Class of 1941
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