Clifford Wadsworth Starrett ’51

Cliff was born March 18, 1928, in Brooklyn, to J.S. and Florence Starrett.

He graduated from Morristown (N.J.) High School and completed his service duties before coming to Princeton. Cliff majored in SPIA and belonged to Charter, Orange Key, and the Pre-Law Society. He roomed with Bill Cobb and Steve Wiley.

After the G.I. Bill ran out at the end of his junior year, he worked the graveyard shift his senior year at Thermoid Rubber in Trenton.

Cliff was an early recipient of the Root-Tilden Scholarship at New York University School of Law. He earned his law degree in 1954, the same year he and Mimi Washington were married.

Cliff was associated for 36 years with Schenck, Price, Smith & King in Morristown, N.J., retiring in 1991 as managing partner.

He was a trustee and treasurer of the Morristown Green, a trustee of the Washington Association of New Jersey, and an active member of the Morristown Club. For more than 50 years he participated in the Tewksbury Foot Bassets weekly hunts.

Cliff died July 30, 2016, after a long illness. He is survived by his wife, Mimi; two nieces; and a nephew. His brother, William ’52, predeceased him.