Bruce G. Soden ’60

Bruce died Feb. 10, 2013, from sudden cardiac arrest while on vacation in Cancun, Mexico.

Bruce grew up in Lake Placid, N. Y., and prepped at Lawrenceville. He played freshman football at Princeton and rowed on the heavyweight crew for four years. He majored in English and ate at Colonial Club.

After graduation, Bruce went on to Columbia Law School, where he was a member of Phi Delta Phi honor society and chief judge of Kent Moot Court. He then took up trial law in Syracuse with Hancock, Estabrook, Ryan, Shove & Hust and from 1989 until his retirement in 2006 with Greene, Hershdorfer & Sharpe. From 1963 to 1969, Bruce served as a lieutenant in the New York National Guard JAG Corps.

Bruce also presided over the Landmarks Association of Central New York, served as president of the Onondaga County Preservation Association, and was an elder and trustee of the Central Park Presbyterian Church. He volunteered with the Princeton Schools Committee. His passion for rowing proved lifelong, as he became a U.S. Rowing referee in 1992 and worked on the referee committee, organized countless regattas, taught the rules of rowing as a clinician, and served as a trustee of the Princeton University Rowing Association.

Bruce was predeceased by his first wife, Alison Guest Soden. He is survived by his wife, Priscilla; their six children; and 11 grandchildren. The class extends sincere condolences to them all.