Charles H. Peckworth Jr. ’38

C. Halsey Peckworth, editorial director of Platt’s Oilgram Price Report, a daily international petroleum-marketing service, died Dec. 23, 1994, after a brief illness.

He prepared at Ridgewood (N.J.) H.S. and Mercersburg Academy. At Princeton, he was a member of Tower Club, roomed with Ken Synch and Chuck Herbruck, and majored in English.

His association with petroleum began when he served in the Army from 1941-45 in the Solomon Islands and Philippines in the Quartermaster Corps; he attained the rank of major. Soon after his military service, he joined Warren Platt’s Oilgram Price Report, where he was a pioneer in developing and interpreting reliable pricing information. McGraw­Hill Inc. acquired Platt publications in 1953 and made him editor-in-chief in 1958. He maintained a lifelong interest in classical English literature, and was as much at home with the works of the great masters as with the ins and outs of world oil commerce.

Halsey married Lois Holderedge in 1946; she died in 1990. There were no children. He is survived by sister Mrs. S. William Walstrum w'26 and sister Sarah R. Rockhold w'26.