Albert St. L. Peter ’37

Explosives expert, ever-active Pete St. Peter died Oct. 23, 1997, after a long bout with emphysema. His wife of 50 years, Virginia, survives him, as do children Dennis '69, Mary, Matthew, and Anne.

Pete graduated from Ridgewood H.S. in Hohokus, N.J., where he was active in cross country, soccer, Hi-Y, and the glee club. At Princeton he majored in engineering, was business manager of the Bric-a-Brac, president of the Glee Club, and a member of Theatre Intime, Triangle Club, and Key and Seal.

Pete first put his engineering skills to work with the New Jersey Zinc Co., becoming for nine years mining engineer with the company in New Jersey and Austinville, Va., with time out for air raid duties. By 1952 he had been a technical representative in explosives for E. I. duPont de Nemours and then sales manager with their Cia SudAmericana de Explosives in Valparaiso, covering Chile and Bolivia. By 1957, he covered Connecticut, Rhode Island, and some national work. He was also a cub-master and director of Community Chest.

Pete retired to Tucson after 28 years but, as things got dull, "After the four million pound blast in Arizona," consulted and set up offices in Peru and Chile to explore for uranium, before retiring again, to "the glorious Central Coast of California---a little late for beach athletics."

The Class of 1937