Philip Wilson ’47, of Portsmouth, R.I.

Philip Wilson ’47, of Portsmouth, R.I.; Sept. 22. At Brown he earned the Foster Prize in French and was a Francis Wayland scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After Brown he entered the Portsmouth Priory, now the Portsmouth Abbey. In 1951 he took his vows to become a monk, continued his theological studies in Oxford, England, and was ordained a priest in 1953. His first mass was said at St. John’s Church in Warren, R.I. He lived a life of service to both the monastery and the school.