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DECEASED
The section was updated February 9, 2016. Please note that deaths are reported
as we receive notice of them. Therefore, alumni dates of death are not always
reported chronologically.
1932—George Hollister Hogle
November 28, 2015
1936—John “Jack” Rollins Rumery
January 21, 2016
1937—Sherman Gray
December 2, 2015
1937—Llewellyn “Lew” Powell, Jr.
December 19, 2015
1938—Haliburton Fales II
November 2, 2015
1938—Frederic Pratt Herter
November 7, 2015
1939—George Clark Willetts
October 27, 2015
1942—William Charles Behn
April 19, 2015
1943—John “Bassett” Moore Place
November 7, 2015
1943—Lloyd Taft Salt
November 19, 2015
1943—Carnes Weeks, Jr.
November 29, 2015
1944—Allen McBrier Sperry
December 23, 2015
1945—William Wallace Sprague, Jr.
December 30, 2015
1946—Clifford Vail Brokaw III
November 22, 2015
1947—William Evarts Streeten
December 23, 2015
1947—Robert Foster Whitmer III
November 18, 2015
1948—Alanson Bigelow Houghton
January 24, 2016
1949—Paul E. A. Rochester
November 7, 2015
1950—Alden Banning Ashforth
February 5, 2016
1950—Hendon Chubb
January 3, 2016
1937
Sherman Gray
a kind family man,
who lived a life
rich with explora-
tion of the world,
died peacefully on
December 2, 2015,
at his home at
Princeton Wind-
rows in Princeton,
N.J. He was 97 and
had lived a very full life.
Born on June 18, 1918, Mr. Gray grew
up in Larchmont, N.Y., and Salt Lake City,
Utah. He was the son of Prentiss Nathanial
Gray and Laura Sherman Gray, owners of
the D-Triangle and the G-Ray ranches in
Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Mr. Gray and his
older sister, Barbara, developed wonder-
ful childhood memories of their time on
the ranches, where they learned hunt-
ing, roping, and riding the country. These
skills were punctuated by climbing adven-
tures in the Tetons with the family and
legendary mountaineers Glenn Exum and
Paul Petzold.
Mr. Gray came from a long line of
Scotch-Irish Americans, who originally
arrived in New England in the early 1600s.
His ancestors included Roger Sherman of
Connecticut, a signer of the Declaration
of Independence, and General William
Tecumseh Sherman.
Prior to enrolling at St. Paul’s, Mr. Gray
attended the Malcolm Gordon School in
Garrison, N.Y. Despite the death of his
father while Mr. Gray was at SPS, young
Sherman persevered. He was “strong
both as a scholar and an athlete,” earn-
ing high marks and excelling in football
and hockey. He was a member of the
Scientific Association, the Rifle Club, and
Le Cercle Fran
ç
ais.
After SPS, Mr. Gray went on to Harvard,
where he played varsity hockey and served
as captain of the 1941 undefeated varsity
crew that won a clean sweep over Yale
and took the Grand Challenge Cup at
Henley, England. He was also a member
of the Delphic and Hasty Pudding Clubs.
From 1941 to 1945, Mr. Gray served in
the U.S. Navy during World War II. He
gained experience as a pilot at Corpus
Christi and Seattle before deploying to the
Aleutian Islands, where he flew PBY-type
1950—Thomas Pearson Wright
January 10, 2016
1953—John Whittaker “Jack”
Lonsdale, Jr.
December 28, 2015
1954—Selden Bennett “Ben” Daume, Jr.
December 20, 2015
1956—Edward Humes “Ted” Ross
March 12, 2013
1958—William Orville Hickok V
November 19, 2015
1958—Henry Butcher “Hal” Roberts, Jr.
December 11, 2015
1959—Michael McCormick Orr
April 22, 2015
1961—Timothy Jay Secor
February 3, 2016
1962—Ellerbe Powe Cole
January 23, 2016
1971—John French Gilligan
May 4, 2015
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