Theodore E. Cornell, Jr., WWII Veteran, of Lake Forest, Ill. and Stuart, Fla. passed away Saturday, November 3, 2012.
Mr. Cornell was a graduate of Loyola Academy, where he played basketball and baseball and was a member of the Athletic Hall of Fame, and Loyola University where he received his Bachelor’s and Law degrees.
He completed his undergraduate studies in three and one-half years and became an instructor in the sociology department of Loyola, and was elected to the American Catholic Sociological Society. As an undergraduate he was elected to the Phi Gamma Mu and Alpha Kappa Delta and Delta Theta Phi Honor Societies and in his first year at Loyola Law School he received the Alpha Sigma Nu National Jesuit Honor Key (now Phi Beta Kappa), graduating with honors.
During WWII, he was a member of the Flying Tigers and flew 99 combat missions over the hump in the China, Burma and India Theatre. Following completion of these missions he flew the hump with the famous Search and Rescue Unit. He received two distinguished Flying Crosses, two Air Medals, the Distinguished Unit Citation and the Medal of Freedom from the Republic of China in Taiwan. Returning from service, Mr. Cornell was employed at a probation officer and assistant to judges Frank H. Bicek and Robert Jerome Dunne of the Circuit Court of Cook County. After entering law school, he was employed by the City National Bank and Trust Company where he was elected a trust officer and leaving in 1951 to practice law. After practicing law with the firms of D’Ancona & Pflaum, Wyatt, Riskind, and Ungaro, Sherwood and Grobe, he formed his own firm in Highland Park with Allan I. Wolff, Jr. and Remo N. Picchietti.
