FRANCIS X. SUTTON

SUTTON--Francis X., a noted social scientist and foundation official, Francis X. Sutton died on December 18th, 2012. Born in Oneida, PA, on July 7, 1917, he was raised in Newtown, PA, and educated at Temple University (1938), Princeton (1940), and Harvard (1940, and PhD 1950), where he was a Junior fellow in the Society of Fellows. He taught at Harvard, where he also met his wife, the psychologist, Ruth Jacqueline Young, who predeceased him in 2002. He had a long career with the Ford Foundation. Following his retirement, he served as chairman of the Social Science Research Council and a consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the World Bank. He also was acting director of the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, and a consultant to the Aga Khan. He is the author of The American Business Creed (1956). During the War he was a Captain in the U.S. Army Corps. He was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Century Association. He was an accomplished pianist and avid dancer. He is survived by a sister, Alice Ryan, and leaves four children, Peter, Sean, Philip and Elizabeth, as well as five grandchildren, Page and Spencer, Gordon and Emily, and Hannah.