Douglas O. Pedersen ’52

Doug Pedersen died June 17, 2007. At the time of his death he was a resident of Saguache, Colo.

Doug came from Indiana and attended the Peddie School, where he played football and was captain of the hockey team. His Princeton career was in two parts. He left in the middle of sophomore year and went to an English university before returning to the United States and getting his bachelor’s degree from Allegheny College in 1958. He returned to Princeton as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the Graduate School in 1959, but earned no degree.

In the early 1960s he worked in Princeton’s Bureau of Student Aid and was proud to have his paintings displayed in the Princeton University Art Museum. The next 40 years of Doug’s life were divided between New York City and artist colonies in New Mexico and Colorado, where he often exhibited his paintings with those of his wife, Kelsey. That’s about all we know of a classmate with whom we had little contact.

Doug is survived by Kelsey; his son, Norman; and his daughter, Elizabeth ’82.