Barton Veret ’57

One of the few classmates from Nebraska, Barry moved to Bethesda, Md., where he died June 6, 2025.

He came to Princeton from Omaha Central High School, receiving the Donald Neil Campbell Ross 1917 Scholarship. To obtain additional funds, Barry sold ties for the Student Tie Agency. He majored in philosophy and joined Key & Seal Club, for which he played intramural hockey. Barry was a member of the Undergraduate Council, the Pre-Law Society, and the Outing Club, and he worked on the class memorial fund. Senior year he roomed with Mac Seymour.

Following graduation Barry went to Harvard Law School, earned an LL.B. degree, and then served in the Army. He became an antitrust lawyer with the Department of Justice, followed by a long career as a legal adviser with the Agency for International Development. During this period, he got married and worked mostly in Washington, but also served in Nigeria. In retirement he wrote and published three novels, and as he said in our 50th-reunion yearbook, he enjoyed traveling on foot and on watercraft that “don’t much use motors.”

He is survived by his wife, Nancy; stepdaughters Leslie Strittmatter and Linda Kobrin and their families; and sisters Linda Rindler and Judy Hoberman and their families.