Quentin Alan Squires ’52

Quentin Alan Squires ’52 passed away on October 4, 2015, after a brief illness. He was born October 14, 1930, in White Plains, New York, where he graduated from high school in 1948. He graduated with an A.B. in 1952 and an M.B.A. from Tuck School in 1953. He was a member of Sigma Nu. He served two years as an officer in the U.S. Navy and spent his entire career in the public accounting profession. He first joined Arthur Young & Co., then Squires & Co., an accounting firm founded by his grandfather. In 1987 his company, then known as Main Hurdman, merged with KPMG, an international firm from which he subsequently retired. Sometime later he was invited to join Davies & Davies, a regional firm. He remained with them in the practice of accounting, auditing and taxation until permanently retiring to Florida in 1996. In January 1954 he married Ellen Suzanne Schroeder, his high school sweetheart, who predeceased him after an extended illness in 2002. Fortunately, Quent then met and married Susan Chandler Zapata, whom he married on August 30, 2003. Quentin is survived by Susan, her daughter, Kayla, and granddaughter, Norah; his son, David; his daughter, Tracy, and her husband, Paul; and his daughter, Amy and her husband, Brett; and five grandchildren.