William Waller Canon Jr. ’42

WALLIE DIED Jan. 29,1990, in Brookfield, Wisc., his home for many years. He came to Princeton as a member of the Class of 1941, leaving the campus at the end of sophomore year to work in his family's business for a year. He returned to Princeton in the fall of 1940, joining our Class as a junior. He majored in philosophy and was a member of Gateway Club.

During the war Wallie served as a second lt. in field artillery and received both the Bronze and Silver Star medals for courage.

Following the war and his promotion to Captain, he returned to Princeton and was graduated cum laude 'in June 1946. He then entered Harvard Business School and received his M.B.A. with honors in Nov. 1947, remaining at Harvard as a junior faculty member for the next three years. He subsequently taught at the Northwestern Univ. School of Commerce in Evanston, Ill., for three years before leaving in 1953 to work with his father in Velvac, Inc., a small familyowned company. He was instrumental in building the company into a major player in brake and truck equipment.

In addition to his business activities he pursued a lifelong interest in youth and the outdoorscamping, swimming, and canoeing. He was deeply involved in working with and for the handicapped. At age 66, Wallie took up scuba diving at the Cousteau Society summer camp in the Caribbean.

To Wallie's widow, Rosalie; his brother, Col. William B. Chase; his sisters, Julia and Mary; his sons, William and Ken; daughters, Wendy and Sue; and Walter W. White '44, Wallie's brotherinlaw and close friend, the Class extends its sincerest sympathies.

The Class of 1942