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Peter Torrey Winans
a successful businessman, died peace-
fully at his home in Delray Beach, Fla.,
on May 31, 2014. He was 81.
Born April 22, 1933, in Orange, N.J., he
was the son of Elizabeth and James Winans.
Mr. Winans prepared for St. Paul’s at New-
ark Academy, before joining the Fourth
Form in the fall of 1948. He was an athlete
and a conscientious leader at SPS and
served as a house supervisor during his
Sixth Form year.
Mr. Winans attended Harvard Univer-
sity and earned a degree in economics
with the Class of 1955. He spent two years
as an Army medic in Germany. Upon his
release from active duty, Mr. Winans worked
for C.G. Winans Co., a family-owned
paper and janitorial distribution business
based on the East Coast. He began in the
mailroom and eventually worked his way
up to company president.
Mr. Winans married Sally Rogers, with
whom he had two sons, Christian and
Scott. The marriage ended in divorce.
In 1967, he married Frances Johannes
Allerton and moved with her and her two
daughters, Mitchell “Mimi” and Tracy
Allerton, to Summit, N.J. In 1971, Mr.
Winans began his own business, Peter T.
Winans & Sons Inc., in the garage of his
home, which ultimately grew into a flour-
ishing paper supply wholesale company.
In 1996, he sold his business, when he
and Fran moved to Amelia Island, Fla.,
where they enjoyed many years of retire-
ment. The two were active in their mem-
bership in the Ocean Club and Amelia
Island Club on Amelia Island Plantation.
With Mr. Winans in declining health, the
couple moved in 2011 to Delray Beach.
Mr. Winans was known as a master
storyteller, for his jolly sense of humor,
and for his friendly competitiveness in
sports. He enjoyed tennis, golf, and paddle
tennis as a member of the Canoe Brook
Club in Summit, N.J., and the Bald Peak
Colony Club in Melvin Village, N.H.
Together with a group of friends, Mr.
Winans founded the New Jersey Men’s
Platform Tennis Association.
Mr. Winans is survived by his wife of
46 years, Fran; his son, Christian; his
son, Scott, and his wife, Stacey; his
stepdaughters, Mimi and Tracy Allerton;
and his three grandchildren, Kelly, Erin,
and Connor Winans.
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Pendleton “Pen” Stevens
an audio engineer-
ing pioneer, pas-
sionate volunteer,
and loving family
man, died on April
27, 2014, after a
long battle with
cancer. He was 79.
Mr. Stevens was
born on June 25,
1934, to Marjorie (James) and Edwin
Stevens. Before entering St. Paul’s as a
First Former, he attended the Harvey
School in Katonah, N.Y. At SPS, he proved
to be very capable in math and science,
earning the First Dickey Prize in Math-
ematics and Second Dickey Prize in
Science. Mr. Stevens enjoyed rowing for
Shattuck and competing with Isthmian.
Upon graduation from Princeton Uni-
versity, Mr. Stevens joined the U.S. Army
Signal Corps. The communication skills
he learned there led him into a career in
audio engineering. As part of the Radio
Press and United Press International, he
helped bring important events – such as
the Olympics, the Gemini and Apollo
space flights, and major national political
conventions of the sixties – to the public.
Mr. Stevens went on to become one of
the most respected audio engineers in the
country. He invented the first “mobile
studio” in order to record live performances
by artists such as Bob Dylan, Aerosmith,
Fleetwood Mac, Kiss, Stevie Wonder, Rod
Stewart, and, his personal favorite, Neil
Diamond, and helped to create the syn-
chronization system for the first digitally
scored movie, Annie, and for The Wrath
of Khan , the second Star Trek movie.
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