The following is from the CENTRE DAILY TIMES of 31 Dec 1996, by Hugh McAlester -- "This conversation took place recently between two members of the Bellefonte High School Class of 1939. 'Our president is dead!' 'Clinton?' 'No, Jim Craig.' "Jim was president of the Bellefonte High School class of 1939. "Word was received in Bellefonte on Dec. 18 that James B. Craig Jr., 76, died of pneumonia in Sharon, Conn., Dec. 17, 1996. He formerly lived in West Palm Beach, Fla., where he practiced law. "He was born Nov. 28, 1920 in Bellefonte, a son of the late James B. and Mary Warfield Craig. "He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, received a master of arts degree from Penn State in 1964, and later a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. In the mid-1940s he was first vice consul at the American Embassy in Bogota, Colombia. "During summer school at Penn State in 1948 he taught a political science class in inter-American relations, in which I was a student. "Craig's great-grandfather was John P. Harris, a Bellefonte banker, who as an employee of the Bellefonte banking firm of Humes, McAllister, Hale and Co., worked on the financing of Penn State's original Old Main. "Craig's grandfather, J. Frank Warfield of Bellefonte, was the general passenger freight agent of the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania. It operated between Bellefonte and Mill Hall from 1893 to 1918. As such, he was instrumental in the founding of Hecla Park by the railroad. "Craig is survived by one daughter, Claudia, and one sister, the Rev. Emily Craig, a resident of the state of Oregon. One son, James B. Craig III, preceded him in death in 1951. Funeral services for Craig were held Dec. 21 at an Episcopal church in Milford, Conn."