William Winters McQuilkin ’28 *29

BILL MCQUILKIN died Feb. 6, 1992, at Rochester Friendly Horne, after suffering for a considerable time with Alzheimer's disease. He joined Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. as a legal adviser in 1938, and served successively as secretary of the board of directors, treasurer, financial V.P., executive V.P., president and C.E.O. (195969), and chairman of the board. He retired in 1979.

Bill spent his first two college years at the College of Wooster, in Ohio, and then transferred to Princeton. He majored in history and was a member of Dial Lodge. He stayed at Princeton for an M.A. in history in 1929, and then went as a Rhodes Scholar to Baliol College at Oxford. He received a B.A. in jurisprudence in 1931 ' and a B.C.L. degree in 1932. He then took the exams and was admitted to the bar in New York, and joined the law firm of Rushmore, Bisbee & Stern in New York.

Bill was active in civic and cultural affairs in Rochester. He was a board member of the Univ. of Rochester, Monroe Community College, the Rochester School for the Deaf, the David Hochstein School of Music, and the Rochester Civic Music Assn. He enjoyed rowing at Oxford, and later played golf. He once beat Walter Lippman at pingpong.

Bill married Eleanor Godwin Atterbury on Sept. 15, 1934, She survives him, as do four sons, Rebbie, William Jr., John, and Michael; nine grandchildren; and one greatgrandchild. Members of the Class remember Bill with admiration and appreciation. Their sympathy is with Eleanor and their family.

The Class of 1928