Controller, the office of, was established in 1920 with George C. Wintringer as first incumbent. A graduate of the Class of 1894, he returned to Princeton on 1912 to occupy the new office of secretary of business administration, and eight years later took on added duties and assumed the title of controller. The controller and his staff keep the books and collect all monies due the University; they disburse salaries and wages to the faculty and staff and amounts due others for goods and services. When the office was established in 1920, the funds so handled totaled about $1.25 million annually. Fifty years later they were in excess of $70 million.
Controllers have been:
George C. Wintringer 1920-1941
Gail A. Mills 1941-1961
Wilbur M. Young 1961-1975
Raymond J. Clark 1975-
From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton
University Press (1978).
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