Albert Elmer Wood ’30

Al died Nov. 11, 2002, at his home in Cape May Courthouse, N.J., of prostate cancer. He was 92.

Al prepared at the Brooklyn Poly HS. At Princeton he was a member of Clio Hall and roomed junior and senior years with G. M. Crowley. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and went on to study vertebrate paleontology at Columbia, where he earned his PhD. Al joined the faculty at Amherst College as a professor of biology. During WWII he served as a lieutenant colonel, earning a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. After he retired from Amherst, he moved to Cape May Courthouse, to a house he had built on ancestral property that had been in the family for 300 years. A house built in 1854 on another portion of property is now a bed-and-breakfast called Doctors Inn, due to the many PhDs and MDs in the family.

Al married Frances Wright in 1937. They had three sons, one of whom is Roger '62. Al was our class treasurer when he died.

The Class of 1930