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Javier White suffered a heart attack and died on July 8, 1987, in New York. He was the managing partner of Stevens, Hinds & White, an influential law firm in Harlem that counts a number of Caribbean and African nations among its clients.
Born in Costa Rica, Javier moved to the U.S. with his mother when he was eleven. He attended DeWitt-Clinton High School in the Bronx, at which he was VP of the student government. At Princeton, he was a successful (All-Ivy) varsity fencer; he won the Princeton Fencing Medal. As with all things he did, Javier achieved this success quietly and with effort. He had rheumatic heart disease, which left him exhausted from exertion, and he had been told that he would die before he was eighteen. He chose to live his life fully.
Javier was a member of Campus Club, the Chapel Choir, and The Hustlers (a rock band) and was a cofounder of the Assn. of Black Collegians. He was a good friend who dealt with pressures and problems with perseverance and laughter. After he attended Columbia Law School as a Charles Evans Hughes Fellow, Javier began his legal career on Wall Street. He then became a staff attorney for the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corp. He later was its director of property management before joining Stevens, Hinds in 1979.
Javier is survived by his wife, Renée, his children, Naomi and Javier, his stepfather and mother, Richard and Clara White, and his sister, Renée.
© 1988 Class of 1967 and The Princeton Alumni Weekly, where it appeared July 13, 1988. Used by permission.
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