Beau, a lifelong Baltimorean, died of heart disease there Sept. 27, 2013. He was 87.

Though he had entered Princeton in 1944, Beau did not return for a degree after his Navy service. Instead he joined his family’s prominent local construction company, and then, in 1951, upon his father’s accidental death, became company president. (One of his business partners was our late classmate T. Courtenay Jenkins.) Over the next 45 years, the company was responsible for many construction, renovation, and management projects — including schools, shopping centers, office buildings, factories, and athletic clubs.

Beau’s main hobby was raising racehorses on his 50-acre farm in the Maryland countryside. He was one of the founders of Shawan Downs, an equestrian and steeplechase center in Cockeysville. He also was active in land-preservation programs and served on the boards of an independent school and two medical organizations.

Beau’s wife of 31 years, Nina (née Elder), died in 1989. His second wife, Maria (née Marshall), to whom he was married for 19 years, survives him, as do his daughters, Peggy Spears and Lela Williams; his sister, Elizabeth Harvey; and two grandchildren.

Undergraduate Class of 1948