Ray Bradford Murphy ’44 *49

Brad died Aug. 28, 2017. He grew up in Montclair, N.J., and graduated from Andover Academy. At Princeton he roomed with Pete Schultz and was in Colonial Club and a member of Theatre Intime. He earned a degree in math in 1949 after serving in the Marines, principally in the South Pacific. He was a member of Sigma Xi.

After completing graduate work he became an assistant professor at Carnegie Tech and then spent most of his career with Bell Labs in Holmdel, N.J.

He spent summers sailing in Cape Cod with his family. He was in the Montclair Civic Chorus and was also active in the chorus at St. John’s Church in Little Silver, N.J. He diligently completed the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle and was proud to be a member of The General Society of the Mayflower Descendants.

He is survived by his loving wife of 64 years, Margaret; their children, Elizabeth, Peter, Abigail, Katherine, and Samuel; and nine grandchildren.