David Reed Denby ’54

Reed Denby died July 20, 2011, from Parkinson’s disease.

Reed left Princeton at the completion of his freshman year. He was employed by U.S. Steel in industrial engineering and became a general supervisor, working on projects to increase plant production. He left that company in 1968 to become a management consultant in New York. For the next 10 years, he concentrated on real-estate projects. In 1988, he established his own company to build houses on land acquired during that time period.

He married his wife, Sally, the year he left college. She died in 2002. The class extends its sympathy to his daughters, Sally and Deborah, and his three grandchildren.