The following memorial was published online with the July 8, 2015, issue.

Lambert died Oct. 6, 2001, in Haddonfield, N.J.

Lambert, nicknamed Pete, arrived at Princeton from Wilmington, Del., and the Friends School of Wilmington. Freshman year, he roomed in Pyne Hall with Doug James, who recalls Pete's "fine sense of humor with an appreciation for irony and even the eccentric and slightly daring, which made him fun to be around.”

"We toured Europe in a VW I bought in Wolfsburg in 1960," Doug reports. "I think we hit every country and most major cities at a cost of about $5 a day."

Pete bickered at Key and Seal Club and declared architecture as his major, but he left Princeton in 1960, though remaining on our active class roll. In 1961, he entered the University of Delaware graduating "with distinction" in American studies in 1964. He went on to earn a master’s and a Ph.D. from Delaware.

Pete remained there for a few years as an instructor and then assistant professor before moving to New Jersey and the Rutgers University - Camden College of Arts and Sciences. Here he began a long career in academic administration, focusing on programs for educationally and economically disadvantaged students as director of the Educational Opportunity Fund. He also taught in the school's urban studies department and served as an adjunct professor in the English department. A polyglot, he spoke Russian, French, and Spanish.

Pete's passion for the disadvantaged stretched beyond the university and he was active in community action programs in Camden and Trenton; he was also deeply involved in social outreach programs of the Episcopal Church. In 1994, he became a certified social worker recognized by the state of New Jersey. He once called his social activism "a foil to my sedentary academic habits."

"My interests are varied," he wrote in our 20th reunion yearbook, "ranging from painting and drawing, writing, musical composition, gardening, and old-house restoration. My chief ambitions are to never retire and to keep on looking for new turns."

Sadly, his search for new turns ended too soon. His survivors included his second wife, Doris; his son and daughter, and his sister. In his memory, the Lambert Blunt Jackson Scholarship was established at Rutgers-Camden to assist financially disadvantaged students there.

Undergraduate Class of 1962