William Wettach ’31 *33

Bill was born Mar. 13, 1910, in Pittsburgh and died 90 years later on June 28, 2000, in Ohio Valley Hospital, Kennedy Township, Ohio.

Early in life, Bill attended the Arnold School, forerunner of Shadyside Academy, where he was active in sports, continuing through Princeton, after which he played a bit with a minor league baseball team and a semi-pro football team. Academically, he earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in chemical engineering at Princeton and a doctorate from the U. of Pittsburgh. His father, C. D., started his own paint company during the 1930s, and, of course, Bill went to work for his father at the W. W. Lawrence Paint Co. As an expert in paints and varnishes, he moved from company to company, ending up with Reichold Chemical Co., from which he retired in 1980.

Surviving are his sons, Thomas C. and William J., three granddaughters, Christine, Heidi, and Tracy, and one stepdaughter, Barbara Bennitt Meyer. The class extends its deepest sympathy to the entire family.

The Class of 1931