Elisabeth Miller Burger ’41, John Sherman Estey ’43 , Harvey Folks Zimand ’46
He was assistant-secretary general for economic affairs at the United Nations, and later co-founded the United Nations Development Program. After retiring from the U.N. in 1969, Owen was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and she became Lady Owen. After Sir David’s death in 1970, she later married Chester Burger, a New York management consultant. Mrs. Burger continued to work as a consultant to state, national and international organizations and served in the United Nations Secretariat for International Women’s Year in 1975. She was a member of the board of directors of Planned Parenthood in New York and a long-time member of the Cosmopolitan Club. She is survived by her two sons, Michael David Owen of New York City, and Hugh Miller Owen of Mount Jackson, Virginia; 10 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren; as well as five stepchildren, nine stepgrandchildren, eight step-great-grandchildren and three grand-nieces. [The New York Times] John Sherman Estey ’43, former managing partner of the Philadelphia law firm
Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP, passed away on July 7, 2015 in Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania with his wife, Alix, at his side. He was 89. John was born in New York City on April 11, 1926, the son of the late Laurence Wilkie Estey and Caroline Grabill Eshleman Estey. He graduated from Friends Seminary in New York City. He entered Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, and joined the U.S. Navy. He participated in a navy officer training program that sent him to Swarthmore College and then to Harvard University. He graduated in 1947 from Haverford College where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1950. John practiced corporate and bankruptcy law for over three decades at Montgomery McCracken. He retired as managing partner of the firm in 1996. During his career he held numerous committee positions with the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania bar associations. John’s legal career was long and distinguished. One of his most significant achievements occurred in the fall of 1990 when the City of Philadelphia faced a $206 million cash short-
age and was on the brink of bankruptcy. Without access to the bond market, and with no single financial institution willing to lend, John, through sheer force of will and keen legal acumen, assembled and convinced a consortium of banks, led by his client CoreStates, to step into the breach so that the city’s finances could be stabilized and a meltdown avoided. John married the former Margaret Harper Glenn who predeceased him in 1984. He married the former Alexandra Montgomery Dial in 1986. John spent 50 summers with his family in Eagles Mere. An avid golfer and accomplished bridge player, he was a member and past president of the Eagles Mere Country Club and the Dushore Lions Club. Following retirement, John and his wife maintained their residence in Vero Beach, Florida. Friends and family gathered for a celebration of John's life on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015 at The Racquet Club in Philadelphia. Marjorie Lehmann Moats ’43 was born on Jan. 10, 1926, and passed away on Dec. 13, 2013. Marjorie was a resident of Hanover, New Hampshire.
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