Wistar Hodge Maclaren ’28

WISTAR MACLAREN died at his home in Bryn Mawr on June 2, 1992, after a long illness. His father, Malcolm MacLaren 1890, was a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton. Wistar prepared for college at Lawrenceville, and at Princeton he majored in English, was on THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN board, and was a member of Cloister Inn.

Immediately after graduation, Wistar worked for Brooke Stokes & Co., stockbrokers in Philadelphia. Two years later he became a financial assistant to the Philadelphia Electric Co, where he remained until 1941. He enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1942, was attached to the Naval Aviation Supply in Philadelphia, and attained the rank of lieutenant commander before his discharge in 1946. He then joined Philadelphia National Bank, where he became V.P. and controller, retiring in 1969.

Wistar was on the board of the Rosemont Civic Assn., was a director of the Valley Forge Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and was treasurer of the Citizen's Council on City Planning and chairman of its transportation committee.

Wistar married Louisa Bayard Phillips on June 20, 1941. She survives him, as do three children, twin sons Wistar Jr. and Joseph, and a daughter, Lisa Kroeger; two sisters, Elizabeth and Angelina; and seven grandchildren. Princeton relatives include his father, his uncle David 1879, a brother Malcolm Jr. '23 (deceased), a brotherin-law Walter M. Phillips '35 (deceased), and numerous cousins. He was a direct descendant of Benjamin Franklin, and he donated a family heirloom, a glass harmonica, to the Franklin Institute in 1979. Wistar enjoyed Princeton reunions, and we will retain grateful and happy memories of his friendship.

The Class of 1928