Classmate Hardy Pearce writes:

I am sorry to have to report the death of our classmate, John Gemmill. John died in December in New Haven; the New Haven Register obituary is below. John and I were college roommates, shared an apartment during graduated school, and remained close throughout out lives. We will miss him terribly.

Hardy Pearce

JOHN HENRY GEMMILL 1943 - 2014

GEMMILL, JOHN HENRY John Henry Gemmill of New Haven, CT, Southwest Harbor, and Franklin Maine, had a gentle death in the early hours of December 6, 2014 after a year of valiant, optimistic experiments fighting melanoma. Alongside was his wife, Stacey McGlone Gemmill, to whom he had been so very happily married since 1974. They had made their home in Guilford Connecticut from 1975 until 2013. The son of Ann-Mari Andersson and Henry Gemmill, John was born March 25th 1943 in Washington D.C. John and his sisters, lived and were educated in several U.S. cities, as well as in London and Paris as a result of his father’s career with The Wall Street Journal. After graduating from Yale University (B.A. 1965), he served as a Lt. JG in the U.S. Navy 1965-67. From 1968 until 2013, he continuously practiced architecture in Connecticut primarily with Architectural Services of Milford, CT and for an architect and friend John immensely admired, Robert Page, Architect, of Stony Creek, CT. A skilled yachtsman, in the years immediately after college John enjoyed chartering Hinckleys which he and friends took often into the Bay of Fundy and later, with Stacey’s family and their friends, sailed in warmer waters of New England and the Caribbean. In 2001 John commissioned a J32 sloop which the Gemmills sailed out of the Noank Shipyard until last year.