Alfred Marsden Price II ’38

Al Price died in Crystal Lake, Ill., on June 15, 1995. He was the son of Benjamin Price '04 and nephew and namesake of Alfred M. Price '13. His father was the first of Princeton's Rhodes scholars.

Al prepared at Portsmouth Priory School and graduated with honors in mechanical engineering. As a member of Cloister Inn, he was active in interclub football, basketball, and baseball competition.

His early business career, which began with Ryerson and then Inland Steel in Chicago, was interrupted by WWII. Commissioned in the Navy in 1942, he spent the bulk of his time afloat, going from the Salerno-Anzio beachheads to the Pacific theater and Saipan and Okinawa. His participation earned him seven battle stars and attendant campaign ribbons. The Navy recalled him for service in the Korean War in 1951-53, and he emerged with the rank of commander.

In 1946 he joined the Quaker Oats Co., first as a project engineer. His business career was spent in engineering assignments with Quaker Oats, and when he retired in 1982 he was the chief engineer at their Akron laboratories. After this he continued doing design engineering for many small manufacturers.

Al married Roxane McKenzie in 1940. He and Roxane were frequent attendees at our reunions. Roxane died in 1991. They had one daughter, Charlotte, to whom the class extends its sympathy.

The Class of 1938