Charles D. Kuehner ’40

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Charlie died Jan. 7, 2003, at Princeton Medical Center. He prepared at Trenton HS, and at Princeton majored in economics, was a member of the Westminster Society, manager of the Student Magazine Agency, and was president of both College Opinion Surveys and Terrace Club.

He received his MBA and PhD from NYU. During WWII he served as regimental ammunition officer in the Army in France and Germany, and in the economic division of the US military government in Berlin.

After 35 years in the Bell System, he became director of investor relations for AT&T. He served as president of the Princeton Club of Trenton. In 1989 he founded the Task Force on Ethics in Princeton, and was its first president. He was editor of Capital and Job Formation, a board member of the George Washington Council, president of his PTA, and public relations chairman of Mercer County Heart Assn. An avid gardener and trekker, he scaled Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Predeceased by his first wife, Winifred Vickery, he is survived by his wife, Carol Wehrheim; daughter Constance; son Charles Jr.; a granddaughter; and a sister, Alma Wood. To his family, his classmates extend their sincere condolences.

The Class of 1940

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