DAVID W. MEASUROLL

1905-1966

David W. Measuroll, retired vice president of the First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co., was born in Hightstown, New Jersey, on January 25, 1905. On September 26, 1966, while vacationing, he died suddenly at Dorset, Vermont, after a happy day of water-color painting amidst the autumn foliage.

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1928, obtained his M.A. degree there and served as lecturer and instructor in the Wharton School of Business and Finance, 1932-38. His banking career with First Pennsylvania began as a statistical clerk in 1928. In 1938 he was elected assistant trust investment officer and three years later was promoted to trust investment officer. He was named vice president in 1957.

He was former president of the Sunnycrest Farm for Boys and a member of the Thornbury-Westtown and West Chester Jointure school boards. He was formerly treasurer and a director of the Musical Fund Society, and was co-chairman of the finance committee of Bethlehem Methodist Church in West Chester. A skilled amateur pianist, he was former president of the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music, and gave talks on musical appreciation for several winters at his home at Thornton, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

He was a member of the Philadelphia Financial Analysts, New York Society of Security Analysts, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia Sketch Club and Philadelphia Trail Club.

He joined the Alpine Club of Canada in 1940 and was elected to the American Alpine Club in 1946, serving as its treasurer, 1950-55. His climbing record was not extensive, although covering a period of more than thirty years. In Canada he had done peaks in the Lake Louise, Lake O Hara and Yoho valley areas. In 1944 he and his wife accompanied the present writer up Howse River, making the first ascents of Aries and Stairway Peaks, assisting with measurements of the Freshfield glacier and visiting Glacier Lake. In 1947 we were again together for ascents of Mount Niles and Mount Daly. Long before this he had made minor climbs in the Alps, including the Buet, and visited these mountains with us in later years: Arolla, 1951; Madonna di Campiglio, 1962; Pontresina, 1964. This was his last season among high peaks.

Measuroll was head of his bank’s investment research division when a serious cardiac condition forced his retirement shortly before his 60th birthday. His wife, the former Helen Schofield, survives him. We are poorer by the loss of his engaging personality.

J. Monroe Thorington