Charles Van Mater Shedd ’46

Charlie died April 14, 2007, after a long illness. He was 82.

He entered Princeton from Hotchkiss in 1942 and served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946. After graduating from SPIA in 1947, he obtained a master's in industrial and labor relations from Yale in 1948.

In 1950, Charlie began working with Sargent and Company, Kidde & Co., and for 28 years, the Foster Wheeler Corp. From 1969 on he traveled extensively to the Far East and had a five-year assignment as international personnel director in Reading, England. He and his family returned in 1988 to Basking Ridge, N.J., where they lived for many years.

Charlie is survived by his wife of 53 years, Virginia Edge Shedd; five children, Dennis '76, Jeffrey, Nancy, Michael '83, and Robert; and 13 grandchildren. To them all, the class extends its deepest sympathy.