William A. Whiteside Jr., 93, of Ocean City, retired labor attorney and head of the labor and employment law department at Fox Rothschild, tireless volunteer leader for the Police Athletic League and Wissahickon Skating Club, former star athlete and coach at La Salle College High School, and veteran, died Sunday, Dec. 4, of cardiopulmonary arrest at his home.
Born and raised in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Mr. Whiteside graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, now Penn Carey Law, in 1954 and, beginning in 1956, worked for 40 years at a firm that became Fox Rothschild in 1960. Among his many longtime clients was Community College of Philadelphia, which he represented almost from its founding in 1964 until his retirement in 2001.
A 1946 graduate of La Salle, he was an all-star quarterback and safety on the football team, a member of the crew team that won a national championship, and was named the school’s top student athlete at his graduation. Later, he founded and was the first coach of the school’s ice hockey team and served on La Salle’s board of trustees and Hall of Athletes selection committee.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Notre Dame in 1951, was a backup quarterback and defensive back on its 1949 undefeated national championship football team, and was awarded a silver medal in 1950 for being “outstanding in military achievement, scholastic achievement, and character” as a junior in the school’s Air...
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