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The Class records with deep sorrow the death of Allan Furniss on Aug. 29, 1968. Allan was killed in an automobile accident in Delaware while he was driving home to Selma, Ala., after a summer in Maine.
Before coming to Princeton Allan attended the Indian Springs School, Birmingham, Ala., where he was president of the school council and captain of the track team. At Princeton Allan majored in English and was a member of Colonial Club. He also worked for the “Prince” and was advertising manager his senior year. After graduating, Allan taught English for a year at the Fessenden School in Boston. At the time of his death he was scheduled to enter the University of Virginia Law School.
Allan did not have a fanatic zeal when it came to academic pursuits, but he was unusually well-educated in the broadest sense and represented much of what is best in the “well-rounded man” ideal. He was well-read and articulate and had a confident grasp of his own potential and of how he wanted to put it to work. He had a broad perspective on the world that encompassed many points of view and styles of living. He related to other people with unusual ease and grace, because he understood himself and the culture in which he was raised.
Allan planned to return south after studying law, not only because it was where he felt most at home, but also because it was where he felt he could make the greatest contribution by bringing education, talent and enlightenment back into the culture and economy of the area.
He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Furniss; his grandmother, Mrs. John N. Furniss; his grandfather, Comdr. J. LeVoy Hill; his brother, John; and his sister, Emory. To them and to all his many friends the Class extends its deepest sympathy.
© 1969 Class of 1967 and The Princeton Alumni Weekly, where it appeared March 11, 1969. Used by permission.
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