SAMUEL S. GREENE MALS’57

SAMUEL S. GREENE, the retired headmaster of Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh, died Nov. 27, 2016, at age 89. He was the brother-in-law of John H. Blair of the class of 1937. A U.S. Army veteran, he received his bachelor’s degree from Amherst College in 1951. While teaching at the Mount Hermon School, where he also founded the summer school, he received an MALS from Wesleyan in 1957. In 1966 he was appointed headmaster of the Shady Side Academy. During his tenure coeducation was introduced. His first wife was Martha Payne Greene. Their five daughters survive, as do five grandchildren and his second wife, Phyllis Gansz Greene.