David P. Blakey ’71

Dave was one of the few international students in our class, having come to Princeton from Melbourne Grammar School. He majored in civil and geological engineering, was a member of Cannon Club, and was president of Princeton Judo Club. He roomed his senior year with David Medoff, John Moore, and John Roegge.

Dave returned to Australia after graduation and, after a brief stint at Broken Hill Proprietary Ltd., one of Australia’s largest companies, went into the oil business, beginning with Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) in 1974. He had a colorful early career, working on an offshore oil rig, gas drilling in Indonesia, and designing an oil-pipe storage area in Bangladesh. Later assignments took him back to Indonesia and to the North Sea. When he left ARCO in the mid-1990s, he moved back to Australia.

Dave earned a postgraduate diploma in education and did some tutoring. He took up woodworking and built a pergola, among other projects. He kept in contact with a number of his Princeton classmates over the years, and made it back to our 25th reunion.

To his wife, Annabel, and their children, Ken and Rachel, the class sends its profound sympathy.