A mining engineer with his own monument company in Brevard, N.C., Todd came to Princeton after Culver Military Academy. He roomed freshman year with Mike Bagwell, John Updegraph, and Tom Baird, and was on the business board of The Daily Princetonian. He left at the end of freshman year and in 1974 earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of West Virginia. In 1977, he received a bachelor’s degree in engineering management from West Virginia Institute of Technology.
Todd was a member of Rotary, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and the Transylvania County Cemetery board. In The Book of Our History he wrote, “I’ve spent my career connected with excavation, but not the kind I had planned.”
Todd died March 11, 2010, and at that time was survived by his wife, Marie, and son Lee. He was predeceased by his son Todd Jr.