Alfred M. Osgood ’37

Law specialist in federal excise taxes, war department counterintelligence expert, and avid sailor Al Osgood died of congestive heart failure Apr. 29. His wife, Betty, and a son, Randall, predeceased him in 1992, but he left sons Alfred, Christopher, and Thomas, and five grandchildren.

At Exeter, Al was on the football and track teams and active in student government and dramatics. He majored in modern languages at Princeton, played freshman and 150-pound football, and was on the rugby team and a member of the Triangle Club, Yacht Club, ROTC, and Elm. He earned his law degree at Harvard, also being capt. of its rugby team.

The army sent him to London in 1944, and for almost five years he participated in campaigns through Normandy, northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland, and central Germany, earning him a bronze star. He was the first Princetonian into Berlin and ended up a lt.-col. He wrote a manual to train counterintelligence agents.

He practiced law in DC with Lee, Toomey & Kent for over 25 years and retired in 1980. He said, "My wife and four sons have been the greatest thing that has happened to me."

The Class of 1937