Daniel Baker ’52

Dan Baker died May 19, 2013, in Ruxton, Md. He was the son of Joseph D. Baker Jr. 1916.

A native Baltimorean, Dan finished at Gilman School. At Princeton he joined Cloister and majored in basic engineering. He roomed with Mac Cromwell, Don Spurling, and Gordon Lamb.

After two years in the Army, he worked at Martin Marietta — successor to his family business — until 1967, when he declined a promotion that would have meant leaving Baltimore. Instead he went to work at Alex. Brown for 30 years. He retired as a general partner with compliments from his colleagues, including “one of the true gentlemen in the investment business in Baltimore.” He then took up farming on the place where he had lived as a boy.

Dan is survived by his wife, Patty (nee Patricia Grotz) Baker, and his children, John Daniel and Helen Baker Bonsal. The class offers sympathy to them.