Carlyn Lynch Eileen Schoenfelder ’75

Carlyn died in an automobile accident on Dec. 26, 2000, in Germany. She was 47.

Carlyn was born in NYC and was a graduate of the Chapin School. An architecture major at Princeton, she graduated summa cum laude and went on to pursue a master's at the U. of Southern Calif., where she met her first husband, Peter Wohlfahrtstaetter. She moved with him to Austria in 1978. The marriage ended in divorce in 1984, and there were no children.

Carlyn married Kurt Heinz (Conrad) Schoenfelder in 1984. Conrad and Carlyn cofounded an architecture and engineering business, Schoenfelder Partners, in Groebenzell, Germany. Carlyn managed international projects in Europe, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Russia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Canada. She also held architecture seminars for one of the leading German banks. Conrad and Carlyn had three children, Catherine Eileen, Silke Edith, and Christopher Henry.

In 1987 Carlyn was a founding member of the Princeton Alumni Assn. of Germany, and she went on to serve as its vice president and Alumni Schools Committee chair.

Carlyn is survived by her husband and children, her parents, and her many friends.

The Class of 1975