Allen D. Black ’63

Allen, a distinguished Philadelphia lawyer with a long record of service to pro bono and nonprofit organizations, died June 18, 2025, with his husband, Randy Apgar, at his side at their home in Point Pleasant, Pa.

At Princeton, Allen majored in history, belonged to Cloister Inn, and was news editor of The Daily Princetonian in senior year. He graduated magna cum laude from Penn law and was third in his class.

Allen’s legal career included more than 40 years of antitrust and professional liability litigation with the firm of Fine, Kaplan & Black, which he founded. He served on the faculties of the University of North Dakota Law School, Rutgers-Camden Law School, Temple University Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. He was vice president of the American Law Institute for 10 years.

A pilot for most of his life, Allen served for 20 years on the Bucks County Airport Authority, 10 of them as chairman. He learned to fly at Princeton after writing a feature story in the Prince on the Princeton Flying Club, which flew three little planes from the grass Princeton Airport just north of town. He interviewed classmate John Stubbs, the club president, who took him on a flight and even let him fly the plane. “I was hooked!” Allen wrote for our 50th-reunion yearbook.

In addition to Randy, Allen is survived by many cousins and their spouses and children.