Charles Van Pool Gelder ’29

VanVan died May 21, 1997. He prepared at Tower Hills Friends School. At Princeton he was in the band, orchestra, and crew and belonged to Arbor Inn. Sherry Steadman was his roommate. Van left Princeton during our junior year and earned a BS in chemical engineering from MIT in 1931.

His work as chemical engineer began with du Pont and continued with Socony-Vacuum. He became more and more interested in photography and opened the Camera Corner in Moorestown, N.J., which he and his wife, Katharine Fletchall, ran for many years before moving in 1993 to Brunswick, Maine. Van was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Moorestown and a member of numerous engineering societies. He is survived by his widow and two daughters, Mary Louise Seldenfleur and Elizabeth K. The class extends sincere sympathy to Van's family.

The Class of 1929