Salvatore J. Vinciguerra ’59

Sully died at home June 1, 2006, of lung cancer.

Born in Methuen, Mass., Sully prepared for Princeton at Andover, where he captained the JV football team and served on the student council. At Princeton, he played 150-pound football, ate at Tiger Inn, and concentrated in basic engineering, becoming business manager of the Princeton Engineer and serving on the engineering council.

Sully had an extensive career in business. He entered General Electric’s training program upon graduation, then moved to Arthur D. Little as a manufacturing division consultant. In 1968 he graduated with distinction from Harvard Business School and joined Instron Corp., where he worked for several years in its Tokyo office before becoming its chief operating officer. In 1990 he moved to Staveley-USA Inc., then in 1996 to Ferrofluidics Inc., and in 1998 to Balkore Industries, where he was working at the time of his death. In all three companies he held the positions of president and CEO.

He was a director and former president of the Japan Society of Boston, and a trustee and treasurer of the Conservatory Lab Charter School in Brighton, Mass.

Sully is survived by Grace, his wife of 43 years; daughters Elizabeth Vengen, Catherine Vinciguerra-Pankhurst, and Suzanne Rosen; a son, Joseph; his mother, Erminia; and seven grandchildren.