Theodore W. Foot ’57

Ted died Nov. 14, 2025.

He came to Princeton from Glen Ridge (N.J.) High School, majored in religion, joined Cannon Club, and won letters as co-captain and rear commodore of the Sailing Team and varsity diver on the Swim Team.

Ted earned a master’s degree and Ed.D. at Harvard. In 1959, he married Elizabeth S. Peck and they had three children. Sadly, she died of cancer at age 39. He then married Sara Sikes Prescott, the daughter of Gordon Sikes 1916. That marriage ended in divorce, and Ted then married Patricia Duffy, a widow, who died in 2024 after 40 years of marriage.

Ted served for many years as a superintendent of schools in Radnor, Pa., Minnetonka, Minn., Wilton, Conn., Niskayuna, N.Y., and Tredyffrin/Easttown, Pa. From 1975 to 1979 he served as a Princeton trustee. During his life he sailed off the coasts of New England and the Mid-Atlantic States — most notably as commodore of the Bucks Harbor (Maine) Yacht Club, where he installed a junior sailing program and ran the race committee. His longtime boat after he retired to Orleans, Mass., was the Tigress, a Bristol 35. Ted was also a skier, a woodworker, a dog owner of black and yellow labs, and active in church and community affairs.

Ted is survived by his children Jonathan ’84, Elizabeth, and Nancy ’92; four stepchildren; his brother; and his ex-wife, Sara.