Cadwallader Benedict ’36

Ben died at age 87 in Wilmington, N.C., June 5, 2001. For most of his adult life he lived in North Carolina.

He prepared at the Loomis School. At Princeton he majored in English.

In 1941 he was elected commissioner of Health and Public Safety of Pinebluff, N.C. In 1942, he served three years in England in the Public Relations Section of the 3rd Air Division Headquarters, 8th Air Force.

After the war he returned to North Carolina and worked for weekly newspapers on editorial assignments in Sanford, Aberdeen, and Southern Pines. He was a founding member of Southern Pines and for several years a director of The Humane Society of Moore County.

In 1966 he and his wife, Mary, bought the Country Bookshop in Southern Pines. They sold it in 1984, when Ben retired.

Mary Wilson Holt-Smith Benedict, whom he married in 1943, died in 1990. He is survived by son Christopher, daughter-in-law Shannon, and granddaughters,Margaret and Katharine.

The Class of 1936