Stanton Ellison ’58

Stanton Ellison ’58 died on February 3, 2003, in Guilford, Connecticut.

Born on June 4, 1936, in Willimantic, CT, he prepared for college at Windham High School there and became a member of Delta Sigma Fraternity at Bowdoin, which he attended from 1954 to 1956. He studied Chinese (Mandarin) at the Yale University Institute of Far Eastern Languages and served in the U.S. Air Force from 1957 to 1960, attaining the rank of airman first class (R-4). He also studied for a year at Georgetown University and, following his graduation from the University of Connecticut in 1963, joined The Travelers Insurance Company in Hartford, CT, as a data processing programmer. In 1971, he joined the comptroller’s department of the State of Connecticut as a staff assistant in the office of the state director of data processing. He retired as an information systems administrator. Surviving are three sons, Stanton Ellison, Ronald Ellison of Guilford, CT, and Frank Ellison; and four daughters, Meili Horeil, Joanne Taylor, Sulynn Euler, and Nicole Hjort.