Kirk graduated from Andover. At Princeton he was on the track team for four years, served as ad manager for WPRU, and belonged to Colonial Club. His roommate was John Winton.
After college he served as a lieutenant in the Navy from 1952 to 1955.
Kirk had extraordinary success in business as president of, in turn, the American Chicle Co., Life Savers Inc., and Lanvin-Charles of the Ritz. He served on the YMCA Center for Management’s board of advisers (describing it with satisfaction in our 45th-reunion book and the The Book of Our History).
Kirk was married twice — to Susan Hansel and then to Linda Riley. He died April 28, 2012, in Boston. He is survived by his daughters, Linn, Wayne, and Susan ’86; son-in-law Bruce Judge ’86; his son, T.K.; five grandchildren; and his nephews, R. Hunt Richardson ’82 and J. Blair Richardson ’79. To them all, the class extends its condolences.