JEFFREY NORTON ’45

JEFFREY NORTON, whose lifelong love of books and learning led to a distinguished career in publishing, died suddenly on Sept. 15, 2006, while on vacation in Malta . He was 81. A member of Alpha Delta Phi, he was the son of Ralph Norton of the class of 1903, and the brother of the late Sidney J. Norton ’36 and the late Ralph Norton Jr. ’43. For many years he was editor and editor-in-chief of the McGraw-Hill Book Company college textbook division, as well as the company’s editorial vice president. In the 1970s he started his own company, Jeffrey Norton Publishing, which specializes in foreign language instruction under the Audio Forum name. An avid book collector, he amassed more than 5,000 books on angling that were sold at auction. At the time of his death, he was working on a definitive bibliography of ABC/alphabet books, of which he also had a large collection. Predeceased by a son, Bruce S. Norton ’72, survivors include his wife, Gloria Norton, three sons, a daughter, and six grandchildren.