Alfred Cramer ’29

AL DIED June 2, 1994. For many years, he had lived on Mouse Island, off Noank, Conn. He was born in Camden, N.J., and prepared at Penn Charter. At Princeton, he was president of the Radio Club and belonged to Gateway Club. He majored in industrial engineering. He then worked for Keasbury & Mattison, Middlesex Butron, Sylvania Electric Product, MacDonald Brothers, Atlas Plywood, Raytheon, and General Dynamics. While at Raytheon, he also taught time and motion studies at Northeastern Univ.

During his retirement years, he wrote a column in The Day of New London about local businesses involvement in the community. He was a deacon of the Noank Baptist Church, president of the Noank Historical Society, and a member of the Groton Oyster Commission. He was in the Sons of the American Revolution and active in Boy Scout work.

He married Irene Chemel in 193l. She died in 1958. In 1961, he married Dorothy Almy Clark and she died in 1989. Al is survived by a son, Alfred A.; a daughter, Stephanie A.; two stepsons, Douglas C. Coburn and William K. Coburn; and a brother, Douglas. The class extends its sympathy to Al's family.