Walt was born Dec. 8, 1929, in New Castle, Pa., to W. Walter and Selina Whitla Braham.

He graduated from Mercersburg Academy. At Princeton he was a history major and a member of Tower Club and the varsity swimming team. He roomed with Jeff Arrick, Bud Brown, Pinky Cohill, Bill Latimer, Bruce Kennedy, and Vernon Wise. Walt graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

From 1951 to 1953, Walt served in the Marines as an operations officer. In 1956 he received a law degree from Harvard. His marriage to Diane Wright that same year ended in divorce, after which he was married to Ann Haines for 48 years.

Walt spent most of his working career at Kirkpatrick, Pomeroy, Lockhart & Johnson (now K&L Gates) in Pittsburgh. When he joined the firm it consisted of 17 lawyers; when he retired as a partner, there were 600. He was a past chairman of the board of St. Margaret Hospital and regularly was active in Princeton affairs.

Walt died Oct. 9, 2011, in Oakmont, Pa. He is survived by his children, William ’79, Susan, Robert, and Nancy Buchanan; seven grandchildren; his sister, Isabel Pedersen; and his brother, James W. Braham ’54. Ann predeceased him in 2009.

Undergraduate Class of 1951