Charles R. Biggs ’50 *51

Charlie died Nov. 2, 2012, at the Winchester (Va.) Medical Center. He was a resident of Berkeley Springs, W.Va.

After graduating from Wilmington (Del.) Friends School, he entered Princeton, where his father was in the Class of 1918. He majored in civil engineering and participated in Theatre Intime, the Flying Club, and the Student Federalists. He was a member of Court Club. His roommates were Jim Bralla, Gus Fleischmann, and Pearce Browning. He earned a master’s degree in civil engineering from Princeton in 1951.

His early career took him through a series of construction and design jobs until 1972, when he started his own firm, Biggs Engineering Associates, in Washington, N.J. He was a licensed professional engineer in New York and New Jersey, and a licensed professional planner in New Jersey.

After his retirement in the mid-1990s he moved to Berkeley Springs, where he was active on various volunteer boards. His community service was recognized in 2009 when Morgan County’s permanent, two-acre recycling center, which he designed and whose construction he supervised, was named for him.

We extend our sympathy to Margaret, his wife of 61 years; his children, Charles II ’74, Elizabeth, Frederick, and Margaret; sister Anna; sister-in-law, Ann w’51; and seven grandchildren.