In Memoriam
Clark Burritt Winter

Clark Burritt Winter, a retired Senior Corporate Executive and Financial Visionary of American Express Company, died in Cashiers, North Carolina, on September 30, 2006. He was ninety-one years old and lived in New York City and Cashiers, North Carolina.

During World War II he served with Army Air Corps 20th Air Force out of Guam and received two battle stars for action in the Pacific Theatre.

At the end of the war, Mr. Winter joined American Express where his varied career included responsibility for the initial planning, development and management of the American Express Card, established in 1958. He was also CEO of the then wholly-owned subsidiary Wells Fargo Armored Car Service.

During the Eisenhower administration, he served on the staff of the Secretary of the Treasury, George M. Humphrey, in Washington DC, for which he received the Department's Certificate of Merit.

Mr. Winter was a graduate of Washington & Lee University and attended Fordham Law School. He was a member of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity and was elected to ODK. At the time of his death he was a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, St. Andrew's Society and Sons of the American Revolution. He was also a member of the Union League Club in New York, the Garden City Golf Club and the Burns Society.

His first wife, Margery Forbes Winter of Denver, Colorado, died in 1994 after fifty-one years of marriage. In 1996 he married Caroline Murphy Keller of Alexandria, Louisiana, who survives him. He was deeply loved and will be greatly missed by his children Elizabeth Winter and John Lane, Clark and Teresa Winter, Duncan and Delphine Winter, Schuyler and Patricia Winter, his sister Martha Winter FitzGerald, six step children, twenty-seven grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.

Memorials may be sent to the Clark B. Winter Scholarship Fund of Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia 24450, Church of the GoodShepherd, P O Box 32, Cashiers, North Carolina 28717, or the Highlands-Cashiers Hospital Foundation, P O Box 190, Cashiers, North Carolina 28741.

A memorial service will be held on Friday, October 20, 2006, at 2 p.m. at Saint Bartholomew's Church, Park Avenue at 51st Street, New York City.