William Prescott
Bill Prescott was my college roommate and close friend. A native of New York City, he sang baritone in the Kroks in 1947 and 1948 – maybe also ’49 and ’50.  After college he joined the U.S. Navy and saw the Mediterranean from the deck of a cruiser.  In 1948 he and I sailed an open boat from Beverly, MA. to Canada and back.  In 1950 he was due to enter Harvard Medical School but his promising life was cut off.  He and I were sailing a canoe in the waters off Beverly.  A gust of wind capsized the boat. He started to swim for shore but died of a heart attack in the frigid water. I miss him still.

-George Lodge ’50

 

Born September  16, 1927 in New York, New York.  Prepared at Groton School.  Lived at Lowell House and participated in Football, Crew, Glee Club, the Krokodiloes and Pre-Medical Society.  He served in the U.S. Navy and studied English.

– taken from the Yearbook from the Harvard Class of 1949.

 

PRESCOTT’S BODY FOUND BEVERLY, Mass., April 12, 1950 UP –The body of William F. Prescott, 23, of New York, who drowned March 18, was found Tuesday on the shore near the estate of Sen. Lodge, (R-Mass.) Prescott, son of a New York sugar broker, lost his life when a boat in which he was sailing with Lodge’s son, George Cabot Lodge 22. capsized. Young Lodge, a Harvard roommate of Prescott, was rescued from the sea by his brother, Harry Sears Lodge, 19. Prescott returned from Paris only a week before the tragedy, after resigning a job, with the Economic Cooperation Administration. He graduated from Harvard in 1949.

-from From the Newport Daily News

DURING World War II, Prescott served in the Navy as a medical corpsman and planned on a medical education. He was a member of the Economic Cooperation Administration and had resigned from his position in Paris a short time before he was accidentally drowned. His parents survived him.

-from Harvard Class of ‘49 – 25th Anniversary Report