Pierre LaTour Jr.

After graduating from Princeton in 1965, he taught science, first at the Antilles School on St. Thomas, where he also started football and basketball competitions that spread throughout the island and beyond. Next he joined the faculty at Phillips Academy in Andover where he had been a student, graduating in 1961. He taught biology, coached baseball and football and was a housemaster.

In 1969, a few months before leaving Andover, Pierre and his wife, Susan, whom he had married in 1964, welcomed their first child, a son, Pierre III. During the period that followed, Pierre’s career entered the realm of film. At Ealing in Cambridge, MA, he was in its educational film loop division before he and two partners set up a company in Salt Lake City, Utah to make feature length films. Its major effort, “Challenge To Survive” starring Mel Torme and William Shatner, was not a box office sensation. Instead, the highlight of Utah was the birth of their second child, a daughter, Nicole.

After Utah, Pierre worked as a freelance writer in the Boston area and reentered secondary education, teaching at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School before he joined the faculty at The Rivers School in Weston, MA, which became a major focus. He was there for 15 years, teaching, coaching and, eventually, he also served as assistant headmaster.

Nearing retirement and on into the years that followed, he increasingly applied his energy and storytelling talent to writing. With his wife, he coauthored a novel, Dead Reckoning. He wrote Half-Remembered Dreams, a memoir about the seven years he and his parents, Mary E. and Pierre LaTour, Sr., lived in Stony Brook, NY, a period in his childhood that he forever treasured.

He is survived by his wife, Susan; by Pierre and Jennifer LaTour; by Nicole and Kevin MacLaughlan; by four grandchildren: Zachary & Matthew LaTour and Shea & Griffin MacLaughlan; and by Lucy, his beloved Labrador retriever.