Daniel R. Childs ’57

Dan died tragically March 4, 2007, while diving off Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands.

He was born in New York City and came to Princeton from the Portsmouth Abbey School. He transferred to Harvard after sophomore year in order to marry his sweetheart, Margaret Burden.

He received a bachelor’s in physics and a master’s in business from Harvard. He worked at Morgan Stanley and was a partner at William A.M. Burden & Co., his wife’s family’s investment firm. He loved cooking, fishing, gardening, photography, and especially his large family.

The class sends its sympathy to Margaret; their children, Shirley, Constance, Florence, Nicholas, Kay, Frederick, and Alexander; and 22 grandchildren.