Stuart Sidney Bernard passed away on January 22nd, 2016 at Meadow Ridge, a retirement community in Redding, CT, one month shy of his 97th birthday.

Born and educated in New York City, he graduated in 1935 from DeWitt Clinton High School, where he was Managing Editor of the Clinton News , and their representative in the New York City Interscholastic Press Association. After two years at City College of New York, he continued his education taking night classes at Columbia University while working in the New York branch of the St. Louis based Gardner Advertising Agency. He was, in his words, "a glorified office boy who assisted the media and production managers, and wrote advertising copy under the watchful eye of the copy chief."

In January of 1940 Mr. Bernard joined the Popular Science Publishing Company as sales promotion manager of Outdoor Life , and in February of 1942 enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Meade, MD. He went to the Field Artillery Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill, OK, was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant, and, subsequently, was assigned to a 155mm howitzer battalion at Fort Ord, CA.

As the reconnaissance and survey officer, Battery C, 760th Field Artillery, he sailed to New Guinea in 1944, and was deployed at Aitape. During the Philippine campaign, Mr. Bernard was also a qualified air observer on aircraft used for reconnaissance missions and adjusting artillery fire. On one of those missions the plane crashed. He and the pilot were not too badly injured, and astounded the commanding General by refusing Purple Hearts because they didn't want their mothers notified. When the war ended, the 760th FA went to Japan on occupation duty.

Mr. Bernard returned to civilian life in April of 1946, and rejoined Outdoor Life . After Times Mirror acquired his company he was elevated to Vice President, Advertising Director. When Outdoor Life became the leading outdoor magazine in the U.S., he was made the Publisher, eventually retiring on March 1st, 1984 as Senior Vice President of Times Mirror Magazines.

During his military time in Fort Ord, Mr. Bernard had a date in San Francisco with Lt. Perry Marvin, a WAC officer serving with the Air Transport Command at Hamilton at Hamilton Field. They reconnected in New York after the war, and were married in January of 1947.

The Bernards had moved to Westport in June of 1959, and soon after became involved in organizing the Greens Farms Association. Mr. Bernard also served on the RTM, Flood & Erosion Control Board, Commission For Senior Services, Commuters Association, Long Lots Intergenerational Program, was Y's Men President 1994-95, co-founder of their singing group "The Hoot Owls," driver for Meals-on-Wheels and Red Cross, and was on the Senior Center Construction Committee.  In 1999 Stuart and Perry became the first husband and wife team to be honored as grand marshals of Westport, CT's Memorial Day Parade.

In July of 2003 Stuart and Perry Bernard moved to Meadow Ridge, where Perry passed away the following February. During his nearly 13 years at Meadow Ridge, Mr. Bernard served on the Resident Management Board, the communications committee, was the Chairman of the Scholarship Fund Planning Committee, and was an active Trustee of the Fund. He also prepared the first draft of this obituary, to make sure that the facts were right.

He is survived by a son, Kent, his son's wife Pegi, grandson Adam, and dear friend and companion Mimi Smolian.