We lost Eric Dec. 25, 2012, to complications from Parkinson’s disease in Greenfield, Mass.
Born in Ohio and raised there and in New York State, he graduated from Rye (N.Y.) High School. Eric left Princeton after our junior year and ultimately graduated from North Adams (Mass.) State College. Among his special friends in the class were Bill Kincade, Pinckney Roberts, and Steve Schaefer.
After working for 10 years with an art dealer in New York City, where he was a lieutenant in the Seventh Regiment, he moved to Massachusetts to teach at Mohawk Trail Regional High School. In 1981 he became the founding headmaster of The Academy at Charlemont, where he remained until retiring in 2002. His avocational interests were many, including the Mohawk Trail Concerts and other local nonprofits, the opera, Latin and Greek, and more.
His wife, Dianne, said that “he gained a modicum of fame [at Princeton] with his horse and carriage to get around the no-cars rule, which got him onto the front page of The New York Times, into Life magazine, and on the cover of PAW.”
Eric is survived by Dianne, his wife of 32 years; his mother-in-law; and his brother and sister-in-law.