JOHN E. BURNS JR. ’40

JOHN E. BURNS JR., the retired chairman of the Crescent Oil Company, died Feb. 28, 2015, at age 96. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi and received a master’s degree from Wesleyan in 1942, where he worked in the biology laboratories. After serving in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, where he worked on the development of high altitude flights suits, he joined his father as president of Crescent Oil Company and Burns Laboratories. His wife, Martha Morgan Burns, predeceased him. Survivors include four children, five grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.