Charles Beale Bergland ’49
Charles died Jan. 21, 2000, after a long illness. He was 73.
He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and served in the army before coming to Princeton. He was a member of Ivy Club. He left Princeton after his sophomore year.
Most of Charles's working life was spent with General Motors in Connecticut. In 1981 he retired and moved to Georgetown, S.C. He was active in his communities, but not in class activities.
His wife, Wilhelmina Goldsborough Stabler Bergland, sons W. Scott, W. Brooke, and Eric, daughters Wilhelmina Cooper and Caroline King, and seven grandchildren survive him. The class extends its deepest sympathy to them.
The Class of 1949
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