Charles David Reich ’38

Dave Reich, a resident of Shaftsbury, Vt., died in his sleep Sept. 30, 2004, in Seattle after a long illness. He had lived with his son in Seattle since November 2003.

Dave spent his childhood in Japan and the Philippines while his father worked as a buyer for the Marshall Field Corp. As a child in Manila, he lost his mother in the Yokohama earthquake of 1923. After preparing at Lawrenceville, he majored in economics at Princeton and was a member of Cap and Gown Club. In 1940 he obtained an MBA from Harvard.

During World War II, Dave served more than two years in the Pacific theater as an anti-aircraft artillery platoon leader. Postwar he and his wife first lived in New York City, then moved to North Salem, N.Y. Dave worked for more than 30 years in midtown Manhattan as a marketing and sales executive in the synthetic-fibers industry. After retirement he and his wife lived in Shaftsbury for 18 years.

Survivors are his wife, Carol; two of their three sons; a daughter-in-law, the widow of his youngest son; five grandchildren; and two great-grandsons, to all of whom the class extends its deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1938