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DECEASED
The section was updated October
17, 2013. Please note that deaths are
reported as we receive notice of them.
Therefore, alumni dates of death are
not always reported chronologically.
1937—Joseph Oliver Cunningham
September 13, 2013
1945—Arthur Adams Jr.
May 31, 2013
1945—Chauncey Goodrich Parker III
October 7, 2013
1946—John Blodgett Stebbins Sr.
July 25, 2013
1948—Stephen Phillips
July 12, 2013
1948—William Watts
September 23, 2013
1950—Edwin Dagobert “Ted”
Bransome Jr.
October 15, 2013
1950—Hiram Edward “Ed” Manville III
September 29, 2013
1954—David Kent Aiken
September 3, 2008
1955—Richard Vaille Lee
May 7, 2013
1958—Michael Dixon Archer
May 3, 2013
1958—Richard Vaux Strawbridge
July 15, 2013
1960—Jeremiah Evarts Sr.
July 19, 2013
1962—W. Sean O’Donoghue
October 3, 2013
1962—Robert Swain “Robin” Ross Jr.
September 30, 2013
1967—James Hamilton Geer Jr.
June 23, 2013
1983—Laura Ann L’Esperance
September 22, 2013
1991—Louis Vincent Gerstner III
August 14, 2013
2007—Donovan Sean Dickson
October 4, 2013
Former Faculty
Gerald James Sullivan
July 7, 2013
Former Staff
Harriet E. Smith
June 17, 2013
Marcus M. Magoon
July 24, 2013
Pieter James Cruson
September 17, 2013
1941
John Gilman Ordway Jr.
a resident of Jupiter Island, Fla., known
as “Smokey” to most, died in his sleep on
May 23, 2012. He was 89.
He was born on November 29, 1922, in
St. Paul, Minn., and spent much of his life
in nearby White Bear Lake and Wayzata.
The youngest of five children, Mr. Ordway
was the grandson of Lucius Pond Ordway,
who made his fortune as a founder of 3M
Co. The younger Mr. Ordway spent his
life in public and civic service, serving
on boards devoted to the arts, education,
and the outdoors in Minnesota, as well
as influencing everything from aviation
to hockey in the state.
He attended Minnesota’s St. Paul
Academy before coming East to enter
St. Paul’s School in the fall of 1939. He
played hockey and football for Delphian
and rowed with Shattuck. He was proud
of his hockey-playing days and, later in
life, would still recall an undefeated Sixth
Form season that included the St. Paul’s
team’s defeat of the Yale freshman squad
at Madison Square Garden.
Mr. Ordway belonged to the Cadmean
Literary Society and was a member of
Der Deutsche Verein and the Glee Club.
He received a Second Dickey Prize in
Mathematics in 1940.
He entered Yale University, but left
college early to serve as a fighter pilot
with the U.S. Navy during World War II.
For two years he flew a Corsair with
Bombing Fighting Squadron Six, attached
to the aircraft carrier USS Hancock off
the coast of Japan. After the war and
graduation from Yale, he returned to
Minnesota, where he married Margaret
McCarthy and began a career at the
MacArthur Co. in St. Paul that spanned
more than four decades, ultimately serv-
ing as CEO and chairman for the construc-
tion materials distribution company.
Mr. Ordway was a member of numerous
corporate and charitable boards through-
out his life, most notably the 3M Company,
on which he served for 21 years, the Met-
ropolitan Airports Commission (1974–81),
and the University of Minnesota Founda-
tion (chairman, 1977-79), playing a key
role in raising funds for the university’s
Regents Professors. In 1980, he received
the Regents Award for outstanding service
to the university. He was a regional rep-
resentative for St. Paul’s School from
1964 to 1967. In 1984 he established the
John G. Ordway Mastership in mathe-
matics. He also was a member of the
Millville Society.
Mr. Ordway grew up in a musical family,
and his involvement in the Ordway Center
for the Performing Arts was a big part of
his life. He served on the board for more
than 25 years and was a member of the
President’s Council. He was also a found-
ing board member of Minnesota Outward
Bound and one of eight founding owners
of the National Hockey League’s Minne-
sota North Stars when the team was
established in 1967.
Mr. Ordway was an avid sportsman and
athlete. In addition to playing hockey in
high school and college, he raced lake
scows, golfed, hunted birds, and enjoyed
fly fishing throughout his life. He was
commodore of the Inland Lake Yachting
Association, commodore of the White
Bear Yacht Club, and president of the
Jupiter Island Club in Florida.
Mr. Ordway is survived by his sons, John
G. Ordway III ’66 and Philip W. Ordway,
and his daughter, Strandy Quesada; eight
grandchildren; and two great-grandchild-
ren. His wife of 65 years, Margaret, died
on January 23, 2013.