Hobe Sound, Florida
Leonard Scranton Platt, Jr.
1933 — 2023
Leonard Scranton Platt Jr., June 5, 1933 - January 2, 2023 Len passed away peacefully at his home on January 2, 2023. He was born on June 5, 1933, to Rachel Mary McClurg and Leonard Scranton Platt Sr. in New York City. He grew up in Riverside, CT and attended the Brunswick School, Taft School and Williams College, class of 1955. He received a Masters in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 1957. He met Barbara (Bebe) Bellinger in Greenwich, CT and they married in 1958. Len and Bebe raised their two children, Pam and Bill, in Greenwich, later moving to South Africa. Len began his career as a chemical engineer in New York with Caltex Petroleum, until his retirement as Managing Director of Caltex...