E. Eugene Jemail ’51

E. Eugene Jemail ’51, of Santa Rosa, Calif.; Aug. 17. After Brown, he entered Yale Law School and from there entered the Army and was commissioned at Fort Benning, Ga., where he became a qualified parachute jumper. After moving to California, he began parachuting again in his 60s. Gene served six years in the Army. Fluent in German, he served several years with the Judge Advocate General’s office in Salzburg, Austria. He left the Army in 1958 and was hired by Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, where he worked in finance and accounting. His last two positions were as manager of profit and cash flow forecasting and international financial analysis, which included supervising employees in 35 countries. He retired after 27 years. He was treasurer of the board of trustees of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and a division manager for the United Way, and he cochaired a three-year fundraising campaign for Brown. Once in California, he became CEO of Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa. He retired a second time in 1995 and signed up to crew on a small sailboat at age 66. That was followed by a two-and-a-half year assignment with the Peace Corps. In 1998, he married and traveled with his wife to 150 world destinations. He climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania when he was 72. He enjoyed classical music and the opera, and reading Civil War histories. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and is survived by his wife, Betty; a daughter; a son; four grandchildren; a sister; and Betty’s children and grandchildren.