Bernard L. Hegeman ’40

Bernie died Dec. 26, 2005, in Gettysburg, Pa.

He prepared at Glen Ridge (N.J.) High School, following his brother, A.S. Hegeman Jr. '35, to Princeton. He majored in art and archaeology, was on the gym team and in the creative arts program, and was a member of Gateway Club. He received a master's from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

As he wrote in our 40th-year book: "I was drafted into the Army in July 1941. The Army had little use for archaeologists, so it retrained me as an electronics warfare and radar officer at Harvard and MIT. After duty in Guam, I was released in February 1946 and went to work for Western Electric." In 1949, Bernie became a television engineer with Allen B. Dumont Laboratories. He later worked for Fairfield Semiconductor, designing equipment for the Department of Defense and navigation systems for the Pioneer Space Project. He operated Hegeman Laboratories for many years.

Bernie was a member of the North Jersey Historical Society, Creative Amateur Artists, the Order of Elks, the American Legion, and the Gettysburg Country Club.

He is survived by Marie Mimm Hegeman, his wife of 56 years; two daughters, Carol Ann Hegeman and Nancy Marie Bembridge; and four grandchildren. To his wife and family, his classmates express their deep sympathies.

The Class of 1940