Bergen N. Bergen ’44

"Pete" Bergen died July 13, 2006, after a long bout with prostate cancer, at his home in Dundee, Ore., with his family in attendance.

Born in Ocean Grove, N.J., he prepped at Neptune (N.J.) High School and the Peddie School. At Princeton, he was manager of the squash team and a member of the varsity lacrosse team and Cap and Gown Club. His roommates included Dick Amundsen and Dutton Bothwell. He earned a degree in psychology in 1943, entered a Navy midshipman school, and served two years on attack transports, where he saw action at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

Afterward, he graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law, married his wife, Pamela, in 1955, and worked as an attorney in Manhattan, including service at Rockefeller Center and New York Life Insurance Co. They raised their family in Demarest, N.J., then retired to Oregon in 1990.

Pete was predeceased by his brother, Robert C. Bergen '37. His father-in-law was John Burt Holmes '16.

His survivors include Pamela; three sons, David, Andrew, and Pieter; two daughters, Julia Bergen and Anne Halstead; and six grandchildren.

Pete wrote in our 40th-reunion directory, "I'd like the opportunity to do it again, with the same guys." He taught his family that affection for Princeton. Our condolences go to them.