James Anwyll Jr. ’55 died on November 17, 2007, in Fernandina Beach, Florida.

He was born January 13, 1933, in Holyoke, Mass. He prepared for college at Holyoke High School and The Loomis School in Windsor, Conn. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and an editor of the Orient. He was a management trainee at New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. from 1957 to 1959, then a sales manager at Marvellum Co. from 1959 to 1962. He joined the Ludlow Corp. in 1963, and rose through the ranks from director of sales and marketing to president of the paper and packaging division in 1976. He served as first lieutenant in the Air Force from 1955 to 1957. He attended graduate school at Syracuse University, where he studied sales management and marketing.