Daniel F. Adams ’66

Dan died Aug. 25, 2013, in Windsor, Calif., from the effects of pancreatic cancer.

Dan was a star before, during, and after Princeton. In high school in his native Roswell, N.M., he was class and student body president, valedictorian, and a basketball and baseball standout. At Princeton he won prizes for excellence in public and international affairs. He played baseball all four years and was a member of Tiger Inn.

After graduating summa cum laude, Dan went to Chile as a Fulbright scholar. He earned a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of International Affairs (where he was student body president) and a master’s degree in government from Harvard.

In 1971, Dan joined the World Bank’s International Finance Corp., specializing in capital-market development in underdeveloped countries — along the way creating major financial institutions in Chile, Venezuela, and the Philippines — and rising to the level of vice president.

In 1997 he retired to his working cattle ranch in New Mexico, where he pursued his avid interests in Southwestern archaeology and conservation while continuing to advise two Latin American investment funds.

The class extends condolences to Dan’s widow, Sandy Jordan; stepdaughters Julie and Tatiana; and his brothers, Ben and Terry.