Bruce R. Carrick ’58

Bruce died of cancer Dec. 27, 2017.

He came to us from The Hill School and was a history major at Princeton. Bruce left after his sophomore year, spent two years in the Army, and returned to Princeton to graduate in 1961. During his senior year he was president of Key and Seal.

A week before he graduated he began his lifelong career in book publishing. Shortly thereafter he married Ann Ewing, known to one and all as “Roonie.”

Bruce worked for Western Printing, Scribner’s, Doubleday, MacMillan, and reference-book publisher H.W. Wilson. He was vice president for general publications and director of the company until his retirement in 1996.

In his later years, Bruce wrote a series of popular history books in collaboration with classmate Bart Marsh, a friend since they were 6. Bruce also edited our highly regarded 50th-reunion yearbook in 2008.

Bruce had a wide range of interests. He loved jazz of a certain era — Bix Beiderbecke and Sidney Bechet and his soprano sax — and old movies like Casablanca, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Twelve O’Clock High.

Bruce was predeceased by Roonie. He is survived by sons Charles ’86 and James; James’s wife, Andra; daughter Meredyth and her husband, Jim Sanderson; and grandchildren Virginia Sanderson and Findlay and Tobias Carrick. The class extends its sincere condolences to them all.