Carl W. Messinger Jr. ’45 *51

Carl Messinger died Dec. 16, 2009.  

Carl entered Princeton from the Burroughs School in St. Louis and joined Quadrangle Club. He followed in the footsteps of his father, Carl Sr. 1914.  

During the war, he remained in Princeton and was one of the engineering students who graduated in 1944. He then joined the Navy as an officer in the Aircraft Engineering Center at Princeton and later joined Princeton’s aeronautical engineering laboratories, earning a master’s degree in that subject. He later moved to the Washington, D.C., area and operated his own company, Forge Aerospace. His company was acquired by Aerophysics and he remained with that company until retirement in 2003. He was predeceased by his wife, Joan. The class sends sympathy to his surviving sisters and brother.