Dan Cunningham ’71

Dan died March 31, 2019, at his New York brownstone after battling cancer for eight years. During his two-and-a-half months at home on hospice care, his many visitors included Coleman, Donahue, Stewart, Miner, Mazo, Jones, Chesbrough, and Goldberg.

Dan grew up in Cincinnati and came to Princeton from Andover. While at Princeton he majored in history, participated in Big Brothers and freshman soccer, and belonged to Colonial. Classmates remember his brilliance, warmth, humor, and kindness. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. He divided his legal career, spending 23 years in New York City and London as a cross-border and financial specialist at Cravath, Swaine & Moore; eight years as a “deal maker” at Allen & Overy; and nine years as a litigator with financial expertise at Quinn Emanuel.

He married law school classmate Alice Welt in 1975. Together, following the death in infancy of their first son, Samuel, they raised two sons, Stephen and Philip.

Dan was a loyal Princetonian, participating in special-gifts campaigns for our class. He also spent 20 years as board chair of Job Path, a New York charity that supports people with disabilities, and close to that many years as an Andover trustee.

The class offers condolences to Alice, Stephen, and Philip, and other family and friends.