The following memorial was posted online with the April 22, 2015, issue.

David died April 1, 1980.   He came to Princeton from West Orange (N.J.) High School. During his two years at the University, he enthusiastically pursued his swimming, sailing, and glee club interests. He bickered at Tower Club.

Dave left Princeton as a sophomore and transferred to Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. He graduated from Mount Allison in 1963, having majored in economics and having continued with his swimming. After graduation, he enlisted in Officer Candidate School in the United States Coast Guard. Upon completion of flight training at Pensacola and Corpus Christi, Dave received his wings and was commissioned an ensign in the Coast Guard.

He married his high school sweetheart, Karen Sosted, from Caldwell, N.J., in September 1964. Their early married life was spent in Puerto Rico, where David flew a C-130 Albatross on search-and-rescue missions in the Caribbean. In January 1969 David signed on as a pilot for Boeing 727's with Northwest Airlines and moved to Minnetonka, Mn., a suburb of Minneapolis.

By then, David and Karen had two daughters, Kirsten and Sally. He spent his downtime with the kids and volunteered in their schools. The entire family was active in their church and continued to spend vacation time in Maine, as Dave had done each summer from the time he was born. They also continued the Sosted tradition of vacationing at a lake cabin in northern Minnesota. And they traveled to different parts of the world as a family.

In April 1980, on a vacation trip to Scotland, while leaving the airport in a car driven by a courier, the family was involved in an accident. David died instantly, but the rest of the family survived their injuries after several months of recuperation. In the following 30 years, Kirsten has completed her doctorate and is now teaching communications at the University of Washington in Seattle. She has added one granddaughter, Elise, to the family. Sally has completed a graduate program at Gordon College, is living in suburban Minneapolis, and has added two grandchildren, David and Anna. Karen has stayed in Minnetonka and spends much of her time in church work and in helping others in the community.

As a "people person" David would truly appreciate being included and remembered as a member of the Princeton Class of '62.   David did keep up his ties to Princeton. He provided an entry for the 10th reunion yearbook in which he reported on his Coast Guard career and added, "Since January 1969 I've been working concurrently as a pilot for Northwest Airlines and as a district sales manager for World Book Encyclopedia."

In his graduation yearbook at Mount Allison University, his photo was accompanied by the following verse:

Thy life — may nothing vex it, Thy years be not a few,

And at thy final exit, May the Devil miss his due.

His years were in fact much too few and we can only hope the Devil did indeed miss his due.

Undergraduate Class of 1962