Adrian S. Wilk ’68

Adrian S. Wilk '68 died of a heart attack in early May 1995. He left behind many stunned friends, coworkers, and family.

Adrian majored in chemical engineering at Princeton and later obtained his professional engineering license. While at Princeton he became a member of Colonial Club. He made many friends there, but later resigned along with several of his classmates in order to support an effort to develop alternatives to selective eating clubs. This sacrifice helped propel the university to create alternative centers of social life that continue to enrich the diversity of Princeton life today. His classmates remember him as being perpetually up for superb stunts and good-natured carousing. He was also always ready for a deep philosophical or personal discussion.

After leaving Princeton he worked for Cities Service Petroleum Co. and then joined Bechtel Corp., where he spent over 20 years. His work with Bechtel took him all over the US and the world including Alaska, Saudi Arabia, and India. At the time of this death, he was a project manager in Houston.

His greatest love was his family: wife Carey, sons Tim and Michael, and daughter Charlotte. They along with his parents, Stephen and Joan Wilk, his brother, Steven '75, his sister, Kathleen, and his great many friends, miss him dearly.

The Class of 1968