William Wright Crandall Jr. ’28

Bill Crandall died Aug. 8, 1996, at the Grafton County Nursing Home near his home in Warren, N.H.

Bill prepared for college at the Hill School and at Princeton was active in the band, debating, and the Triangle Club. He was a versatile, talented, and outgoing member of the class and a member of Tower Club. He majored in architecture and studied for an MFA degree at Princeton. He also did postgraduate study at New College, Oxford, the U. of Vienna, and the School of Beaux Arts in France. His thesis at Oxford was a study of the architectural designs and drawings of James Gibbs (1682-1754).

Bill's work in interior design in NYC was interrupted by WWII. He enlisted in the Navy and attained the rank of commander. He was the welfare and morale officer on the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was discharged in 1946.

After the war Bill shifted his interest to laminated oak flooring, founding the Crandall Corp. In 1965 he became an associate professor of the humanities at New England College in Henniker, N.H. He tutored and advised numerous students, especially those with dyslectic disabilities. A severely broken hip put an end to his teaching career.

Bill never married and is survived by a first cousin, Mary Horrigan, and by several grand-nephews and nieces, to whom the class sends its sympathy.

The Class of 1928