Lloyd Waterman Cornell, Jr. (1922-1986) graduated from Brown University in 1943. As an undergraduate, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, a national scholastic honor society, and served as president of his fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi. He did graduate work in history at Harvard University before returning to Brown in 1947 as an admission officer. He was then in charge of financial aid from 1950 to 1974, when he became an assistant to Brown President Donald F. Hornig. He retired in 1975. Mr. Cornell was a consultant to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Whitehall Foundation, and the Rhode Island Foundation, among others. He was a former trustee of the Gordon School, the Providence Country Day School, the Citizens Scholarship Foundation and the Smith Hill Center and was a member of the University Club, the Sakonnet Golf Club and the Shakespearean Society. He was a Navy veteran of World War II, serving as a torpedo and gunnery officer aboard submarines from 1943 to 1946.
Cornell was the husband of Suzanne (Herrick) Cornell. He was survived by his wife and two sons, Christopher Lloyd Cornell of Camden, Maine, and David Herrick Cornell of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and two grandchildren.
From the guide to the Lloyd Cornell papers, Cornell (Lloyd) papers, circa 1943-1969, (John Hay Library Special Collections)
