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my mother to guide me through life.”
At St. Paul’s, he excelled athletically
in football, hockey, basketball, baseball,
and track. A member of Halcyon and Old
Hundred, he played SPS varsity hockey
in 1948 and 1949 and competed in varsity
track from 1947 to 1949, serving as cap-
tain as a Sixth Former and establishing
a School record in the high hurdles.
He was a member of the Athletic
Association, the Missionary Society, the
Scientific Society, Glee Club, and the
Yearbook. He wrote for the Pelican and
served as a supervisor, helping to run
one of the Lower School dormitories.
Known at SPS as a cheerful boy, he was
also admired for his honesty and integ-
rity. Mr. Yonce told the story of audition-
ing for the Glee Club and not making the
cut. He appealed to Channing Lefebvre
for reconsideration on his candidacy
and was ultimately granted membership
under the condition that he, in Master
Lefebvre’s words, “did not sing out loud.”
Before matriculating at Yale, Mr. Yonce
spent a year working as a guidance coun-
selor for underprivileged and troubled boys
in the Chicago area. At Yale he played on
the varsity hockey team along with five
other SPS alumni, was a member of Fence
Club, and graduated with the Class of
1954. He then served for several years
as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force
before beginning a 35-year career in the
investment securities business, working
for First Boston, A.G. Becker, Rotan Mosle,
and L.P Cook & Co.
In October 1962, he married Lizora
Schoolfield Miller and the couple had
three sons: Samuel McClay Yonce Jr. ’82,
Logan Hanes Yonce, and Clifford Miller
Yonce ’87.
Mr. Yonce was devoted to St. Paul’s
School and served as a form director
from 1979 to 1983 and a form agent
from 1984 to 2004. For his 50th SPS anni-
versary he wrote, “Like all formmates of
1949, I endured the years of WWII. Luck-
ily I attended Buckley School before
entering St. Paul’s, where many alumni
were attending. These associations, to-
gether with new ones at SPS, formed the
most important ingredients of my life –
friendships. These friendships formed a
strong sense of security to face the future
as the only child of a financially strained
widowed mother. . . . St. Paul’s was a
cornerstone in my life. The SPS friend-
ships and associations produced a confi-
dence and sense of security that continues
to serve me well.”
A resident of Boca Grande, Fla., and
formerly Greenwich, Conn., Mr. Yonce
was an active member of the Round Hill
Club, Fishers Island Club, Gasparilla Golf
Club, Lemon Bay Golf Club, U.S. Seniors’
Golf Association, the Father and Son Golf
Association, and the Yale Club of New
York. He especially enjoyed the camara-
derie and competition of playing many
sports with friends and family. He took
pride in supporting the endeavors of his
children and grandchildren and was a
valued “coach” and “teammate” for them.
Mr. Yonce was fiercely loyal to his family
and many friends. He leaves behind his
beloved wife of 50 years; his sons, Clay ’82,
Logan, and Clifford ’87; daughters-in-law
Ginny and Susan; and grandchildren
Samuel McClay Yonce III ’15, Isabelle
Vogel Yonce, Caroline Schoolfield Yonce,
and Clifford Miller Yonce Jr.
1952
Norman Alexander “Alex”
MacColl Jr.
rose to the top
ranks of the
banking industry,
but his free time
was devoted to
enjoying the
outdoors with
his family. After
living for many
years in Avon,
Conn., Mr. MacColl died August 25, 2011,
while receiving medical care in Spring-
field, Mass. He was 77.
Alex MacColl was born in Providence,
R.I., on April 27, 1934, to Norman and
Mary Kimbark MacColl and was one of
many family members to attend St. Paul’s.
He came to the School in 1946 as a mem-
ber of the First Form. Two years later,
he transferred to Proctor Academy in
Andover, N.H., where, among other activ-
ities, he learned to fly, piloting an airplane
alone when he was just 15.
His father, the senior Norman MacColl
of the Form of 1915, and four uncles
attended St. Paul’s in the early 1900s.
Several of Mr. MacColl’s cousins also
attended the School.
After graduating from Proctor, Mr.
MacColl studied at the Rhode Island
School of Design, where he planned to
learn the skills necessary to work in
the family’s textile business. When the
Lorraine Manufacturing Company closed
its mills in 1953, he transferred to Bab-
son College, graduating in 1957.
Mr. MacColl launched his banking
career in Detroit, working in the field
until he retired as a senior vice president
from the Union Trust Bank of Hartford,
Conn., in 1997. He also served for six
years in the Michigan National Guard,
retiring with the rank of lieutenant.
For more than 70 years, Mr. MacColl
and his family spent summers in Wianno,
Mass. It was there that he began his
efforts as a volunteer preservationist,
working to save the Wianno Club from
destruction. He served as club president
for seven years. The iconic seaside club
had been a popular destination since its
1887 opening; it was added to the Nat-
ional Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Mr. MacColl also routinely gathered
with four generations of his family in
New Hampshire for what they fondly
called the annual “MacColl Camporama.”
He enjoyed golf, tennis, quail hunting,
sailing, and boating. He was an active
member of many clubs, including the
Agawam Hunt Club in Providence, R.I.,
the Country Club of Detroit, the Univer-
sity Club of Detroit, the Tennis Club of
Grosse Pointe, Mich., the Hartford Club,
the Hartford Golf Club, the Farmington
Field Club, the Craigville Beach Club in
Craigville, Mass., and the Wianno Club.
He was a member of the General Society
of Mayflower Descendants.
Mr. MacColl is survived by his wife,
Nancy Herron MacColl, whom he mar-
ried on June 28, 1957; a daughter, Susan
MacColl Walker; a son, Norman “Scott”
Alexander MacColl III; a niece, a neph-
ew, five grandchildren; and siblings
Nancy Beckwith, Joan Brennan, and
Hugh MacColl.
DECEASED