Carl, a business innovator in using public records and information services, died Aug. 9, 2010, in Albany, N.Y., the city of his birth, after a long fight against cancer.
He entered our class from Albany Academy. At Princeton, Carl’s rich and deep bass voice found a home in the Glee Club. He was a founding member of the Footnotes, today a Princeton institution.
“In his personal dealings he was a man of uncompromising integrity,” said classmate Joel Rosenman. “At the same time, he had a quiet uncritical way of conveying that nearly everything about life amused him.”
After college he became a CPA, worked for IBM, First Albany Corp., and Simon & Schuster’s InfoSearch. In 1989 he founded Ernst Publishing Co., an authority on finding and using public records. Carl was a founding member of the Public Records Industry Association and helped draft legislation revising the Uniform Commercial Code.
An avid private pilot, golfer, skier, sailor, guitar player, lover of fine sports cars, and collector of Native American art, Carl had been spending winters in Scottsdale, Ariz., and summers in Albany.
The class shares its sadness with Carl’s wife, Carol; children Alison, Carl, Alexander, Gregory Teal, and Darryl Teal; his brother, David; and seven grandchildren.