David Allison Rhodes ’45

Dave Rhodes died July 20, 2003, after a long and courageous battle with emphysema. He was 79.

Dave was a native Washingtonian and entered Princeton from Eastern HS, where in his senior year he served as colonel of the Cadet Corps of all the DC high schools. His Princeton education was interrupted in 1943 for service in the Navy as an officer with the 7th Amphibious Force in New Guinea, and in the campaign for the Philippines. Returning to Princeton, Dave received a degree in clinical psychology cum laude in 1948 and served as president of Terrace Club. He received a graduate degree in psychology from the U. of Michigan.

Dave worked in many aspects of psychology, including a period of teaching and service with the CIA. He later was a staff member of the Brookings Institution in DC, conducting conferences in public policy for senior government executives. After leaving Brookings he became a consultant in clinical psychology and lived in Reston, Va. There he was a founding member of the Unitarian Universalist Church and served on the church board for several years.

Dave is survived by his former wife, Loretta Burnett, their daughters, Kim Evangelista and Karen Federow, and three grandchildren. To all of them, his classmates extend deep sympathy.

The Class of 1945