C. Gresham Ivey ’57

“Very quiet, kind, non-judgmental, didn’t say much, but when he did, people listened,” granddaughter Molly Ivey said of Gresh, who died Feb. 1, 2019, in Salt Lake City.

At Princeton Gresh studied basic engineering. He was the hockey team manager, a WPRB announcer, and served with Orange Key. He joined Terrace Club, where he lived in his upper-class years.

Gresh enjoyed two careers, one in the Navy and the other teaching high school math. To avoid the draft, ironically, Gresh attended Naval Officer Candidate School and then served 22 years on a destroyer, three submarines, and a cruiser. Upon retirement in 1979 he obtained a teaching certificate at the University of Utah and then taught 10 years each at two high schools in the Salt Lake City area, leaving that career in 2000.

He then enjoyed travel cruises with his wife, Bobbie, whom he married in 1959, and reading. “He’d read anything you’d put in front of him,” his granddaughter said.

Besides Bobbie, whom he defined as his “best career choice,” Gresh is survived by a daughter, two sons, and three granddaughters. The class will miss him.