Andrew Loring Rowe ’34

Loring Rowe, also called Andy or Shanks, died peacefully June 26, 2005, at his home in Edgartown, Mass. He was 94.

He retired in 1981 as senior vice president of LaSalle Steel Co. in Chicago, which he joined in 1956. From 1934 to 1956, except for four years during World War II when he served as an officer in the Navy, he was with Elgin Watch Co., where he became vice president.

Loring and his wife, Barbara Bastien, who died in 2000, moved gradually from Chicago to Martha's Vineyard "in part," he explained, "because all our children and grandchildren live in Maine and Rhode Island, in part because we love sailing." He was a trustee of the Edgartown Yacht Club and of the local Historical Preservation Society.

A devoted classmate and loyal Princetonian, Loring enjoyed seeing other Princetonians who live on the Vineyard or, as he put it, "appear during the summer." In 1964 he donated an Aeronca 7AC airplane to the University Flying Club.

Surviving are two sons, Andrew L. Jr. '67 and Thomas B.; a daughter, Nancy R. Burroughs; and six grandchildren, including Amory Rowe '95, an All-American in field hockey and lacrosse.

The Class of 1934