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DECEASED
The section was updated July 17, 2014.
Please note that deaths are reported
as we receive notice of them. Therefore,
alumni dates of death are not always
reported chronologically.
1935
John Inniss “Jack” Howell
of Greenwich,
Conn., and
Springfield
Center, N.Y., died
on March 13,
2014. He was 97.
Mr. Howell
was born in
Sewickley, Pa.,
on February 2,
1917, the son of the Reverend Alleyne
and Rosalie Howell. He entered the First
Form at St. Paul’s School in September
1929 and earned Second Testimonials
from 1930 to 1934. He played second
football and first hockey for Delphian
and rowed in the first boat for Halcyon.
He served as co-editor of Horae Schol-
asticae as a Sixth Former.
Mr. Howell also served on the Student
Council and was a member of the Mis-
sionary Society and the Library Assoc-
iation. He went on to Yale, graduating in
1939. He became a newspaper reporter in
New York City and Cleveland. “I wanted
to learn how people were making out dur-
ing the Depression,” he wrote.
On February 10, 1941, Mr. Howell mar-
ried Nelda Audibert, the daughter of an
American mother and French father whom
he had met at a dance in New York City
while he was at Yale. The Howells were a
vibrant couple, guaranteed to liven any
gathering. They started their family,
including children John and Claire, in
Cleveland, before moving to Washington,
D.C., where Mr. Howell worked in the
Division of World Trade Intelligence for
the State Department.
In 1941 after war was declared, his
effort to enlist in the Army was rejected
due to poor eyesight. He overcame this
setback, however, by memorizing the eye
chart. Once in the service, he was assigned
to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
in Washington and later sent to Burma
and China. He worked undercover for
the CIA as a banker in Tangiers, Morocco,
tracking funding sources of Soviet spies.
Finance ultimately became his career
and, after the war, Mr. Howell joined the
J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp. During
1939—William Gordon Lyle Jr.
May 11, 2014
1943—Russell Crosby Clark Jr.
May 18, 2014
1945—William Harold Willis Jr.
May 11, 2014
1948—Brian Hugh Dermot MacDermot
September 12, 2013
1950—Doyle White Cotton Jr.
October 2, 2009
1950—Francis Lecompte Spalding Jr.
August 17, 2011
1951—Peter Torrey Winans
May 31, 2014
1952—Charles Huston Moffat
July 27, 2010
1956—Lee Scott Dewey
February 2, 2014
1959—David Boies III
May 6, 2014
1959—Christopher James Elkus
July 16, 2014
1962—Alexander Harvey Whitman Jr.
June 20, 2014
1962—Peter Caldwell Wylie
June 26, 2014
1969—Joseph Monroe Walker III
July 7, 2014
1978—Whitney McCleary
December 31, 2013
1981—Diana Kristen Soule
June 7, 2014
Former Faculty
The Rev. Donald Roderick Welles Jr.
June 16, 2014
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the course of his training with the com-
pany, he spent time with his wife and
children, working in a French bank in
North Africa and the Middle East. His
work took him around the world, and he
traveled widely to Europe, South
America, and the Far East, almost always
accompanied by his wife. In 1962, Mr.
Howell became president of Schroder and
transitioned to chairman of the board in
1970. He went on to serve on the boards
of several companies after his retirement,
including Ward Howell Associates Inc.
and the American International Group.
He was a devoted supporter of St. Paul’s
and had been inducted into the John
Hargate Society.
Mr. Howell had a strong attachment
to Springfield Center, N.Y., the Otsego
County hamlet where his grandfather,
Henry Wardwell of the Form of 1869,
built a home that became the nucleus of
a family compound. He was instrumental
in saving one of the country’s first golf
courses – at Otsego – from development,
although he was never an avid golfer and
much preferred tennis.
Mr. Howell was an astute listener, who
helped others realize and draw upon their
strengths. His advice and counsel were
sought and treasured, as were his efforts
to bring together members of the family.
Following the death of his wife, Nelda,
in 2002, Mr. Howell’s close friend, Marge
Boger, became his companion for more
than a decade. A retired nurse, Mrs. Boger
lovingly cared for him and provided emer-
gency response after he fell out of bed
from a nightmare and broke his neck. She
was by his side when he died.
Mr. Howell is survived by his son, John
I. Howell Jr., and his wife, Carol; his daugh-
ter, Claire Blatchford, and her husband,
Edward; five grandchildren; eight great-
grandchildren; and his companion, Marge
Boger. He was predeceased by his wife,
Nelda, his brothers, Henry Howell ’28
and Alleyne Howell ’29, and his grand-
father, Henry Lansing Wardwell of the
Form of 1869.
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