Alan M. Kennedy ’48

ALAN MONTGOMERY KENNEDY, editor and assistant director of the standards program for the Actuarial Standards Board of the American Academy of Actua­ries, died Mar. 12, 1994, at his home in Washingto­n, D.C., after a stroke.

Alan, a native New Yorker, came to us in July 1944 by way of Lawrenceville School. He majored in chemistry and was in Campus Club. He was managing editor of the Daily Princetonian until he left us in Mar. 1947 for jobs as a reporter in Syracuse, Providence, and Newark.

After being drafted in 1950, he learned Chinese, and during the Korean War, he was stationed in Tokyo and Seoul in intelligence. In 1954, he resumed college and graduated a year later from Columbia, Phi Beta Kappa.

Alan embarked on a career as a medical writer with the Veterans Administration and subsequently with Medical World News. He moved to Washington in 1978 and had spent the past five years with the Actuarial Standards Board. Alan was an enthusiastic Chesapeake Bay sailor and taught sailing at the Annapolis Sailing School. He was active at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Washington as a Sunday school teacher and former newsletter editor.

The class extends its deepest sympathy to his daughter Susannah and his brother Donald ‘44. Alan's father was in the Class of 1911.