Charles W. Struck *61

Charles Struck, a research scientist for RCA Laboratories and the GTE Corp. for more than 46 years, died peacefully Feb. 13, 2016. He was 88.

From 1944 to 1946, Struck attended Harvard and was in the Naval Reserve from 1945 to 1946. He was a research chemist at the DuMont Laboratories in Clifton, N.J., from 1948 to 1954, while attending Columbia University and earning a bachelor’s degree in 1954. That year, he joined the technical staff of the RCA Laboratories in Princeton. He enrolled in the Princeton University Graduate School in 1955 and earned a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1961.

Struck remained at RCA as a research chemist until 1980. He then worked for GTE in Massachusetts for 20 years before retiring in 2000. He was a visiting professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and was a past president of the Electrochemical Society.

Struck was heavily involved in churches in Lawrenceville, N.J., and in Massachusetts as a Eucharistic minister and a leader in youth ministry programs, among other activities.

Struck is survived by his wife, Ida; four daughters; five stepchildren; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his first wife, Marie; a son; and a stepson.

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