Pete died July 15, 2015, on Hilton Head Island, S.C., at the age of 102.
Born in Pelham Manor, N.Y., Pete came to us from Pelham Memorial High School. At Princeton he earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering. Pete ate at Elm and was a member of the Catholic Club and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. During his senior year, he roomed with Joe Hazen, J.D. Sylvester ’37, and Tony Rytina.
After graduation, Pete worked for Union Carbide in West Virginia for 25 years before relocating to New York City. He was an early visionary of how the computer age would affect the business world. Retiring in 1976, he and his wife, Tee, moved to Hilton Head, where he owned a computer company that created a program for solving Sudoku puzzles, in which he took great pride. Pete was an avid golfer and sailor as well as an active Princetonian and classmate — he was the oldest returning alumnus in the P-rade in 2014 and 2015.
Tee predeceased Pete in 2005. He is survived by his two sons, John and James, and their families, which include five grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.