By Princeton Alumni Weekly
WELLINGTON HENDERSON was born in Elko, Nev., on Feb. 15, 1902. His family had settled there in the 1870s. His father, Charles B. Henderson, was a U.S. senator.
At Pomfret Hendie was a three-letter man, and at Princeton was a quarterback on the football team. He was the respected and popular undergraduate president of Ivy, served as secretary of the Interclub Committee, was a member of the Right Wing Club, and graduated with honors in history.
He opened bank branches for the old American Trust Co. in Berlin and Honolulu. In 1932, he founded a counseling firm in San Francisco that became the Henderson Boston Co. when he sold it in 1967. He retired in 1982.
He served in the Pacific as a lt. commander on aircraft carriers during WWII. He was a past president of the Pacific Union Club and the Burlingame Country Club, a member of the Cypress Point Club of Pebble Beach, and a founder of the Sugar Bowl winter resort. He was an ardent sportsman — fishing, shooting, and skiing. He attended our 55th reunion, but suffered a stroke some time thereafter, and, after a long illness, died on Jan. 8, 1990. His survivors include his wife, the former Harriet Walker, a son, Wellington Jr. '53, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren, to whom the Class extends its sympathy.
Undergraduate Class of 1925
WELLINGTON HENDERSON was born in Elko, Nev., on Feb. 15, 1902. His family had settled there in the 1870s. His father, Charles B. Henderson, was a U.S. senator.
At Pomfret Hendie was a three-letter man, and at Princeton was a quarterback on the football team. He was the respected and popular undergraduate president of Ivy, served as secretary of the Interclub Committee, was a member of the Right Wing Club, and graduated with honors in history.
He opened bank branches for the old American Trust Co. in Berlin and Honolulu. In 1932, he founded a counseling firm in San Francisco that became the Henderson Boston Co. when he sold it in 1967. He retired in 1982.
He served in the Pacific as a lt. commander on aircraft carriers during WWII. He was a past president of the Pacific Union Club and the Burlingame Country Club, a member of the Cypress Point Club of Pebble Beach, and a founder of the Sugar Bowl winter resort. He was an ardent sportsman — fishing, shooting, and skiing. He attended our 55th reunion, but suffered a stroke some time thereafter, and, after a long illness, died on Jan. 8, 1990. His survivors include his wife, the former Harriet Walker, a son, Wellington Jr. '53, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren, to whom the Class extends its sympathy.
Undergraduate Class of 1925
By Princeton Alumni Weekly
WELLINGTON HENDERSON was born in Elko, Nev., on Feb. 15, 1902. His family had settled there in the 1870s. His father, Charles B. Henderson, was a U.S. senator.
At Pomfret Hendie was a three-letter man, and at Princeton was a quarterback on the football team. He was the respected and popular undergraduate president of Ivy, served as secretary of the Interclub Committee, was a member of the Right Wing Club, and graduated with honors in history.
He opened bank branches for the old American Trust Co. in Berlin and Honolulu. In 1932, he founded a counseling firm in San Francisco that became the Henderson Boston Co. when he sold it in 1967. He retired in 1982.
He served in the Pacific as a lt. commander on aircraft carriers during WWII. He was a past president of the Pacific Union Club and the Burlingame Country Club, a member of the Cypress Point Club of Pebble Beach, and a founder of the Sugar Bowl winter resort. He was an ardent sportsman — fishing, shooting, and skiing. He attended our 55th reunion, but suffered a stroke some time thereafter, and, after a long illness, died on Jan. 8, 1990. His survivors include his wife, the former Harriet Walker, a son, Wellington Jr. '53, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren, to whom the Class extends its sympathy.
Undergraduate Class of 1925
WELLINGTON HENDERSON was born in Elko, Nev., on Feb. 15, 1902. His family had settled there in the 1870s. His father, Charles B. Henderson, was a U.S. senator.
At Pomfret Hendie was a three-letter man, and at Princeton was a quarterback on the football team. He was the respected and popular undergraduate president of Ivy, served as secretary of the Interclub Committee, was a member of the Right Wing Club, and graduated with honors in history.
He opened bank branches for the old American Trust Co. in Berlin and Honolulu. In 1932, he founded a counseling firm in San Francisco that became the Henderson Boston Co. when he sold it in 1967. He retired in 1982.
He served in the Pacific as a lt. commander on aircraft carriers during WWII. He was a past president of the Pacific Union Club and the Burlingame Country Club, a member of the Cypress Point Club of Pebble Beach, and a founder of the Sugar Bowl winter resort. He was an ardent sportsman — fishing, shooting, and skiing. He attended our 55th reunion, but suffered a stroke some time thereafter, and, after a long illness, died on Jan. 8, 1990. His survivors include his wife, the former Harriet Walker, a son, Wellington Jr. '53, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren, to whom the Class extends its sympathy.
Undergraduate Class of 1925
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