Dudley Woodbridge ’44

ON AUG. 4, 1993, while driving home to Princeton from Trenton, Dudley pulled over to the curb and died. His sudden passing was a shock to his family and many friends.

A graduate Of Germantown Academy, Dudley majored in mechanical engineering at Princeton. He graduated in three years, while rooming with Don Korth, Rod Payton, and Bob Young. His three years of navy service were as a It. j.g. on a destroyer escort in the Pacific. After two years at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, he returned to Princeton for an engineering master's. Then he worked with Applied Science Corp. in Princeton, then founded Dynaplex, Aydin Corp., and N.J.E. Corp. Since 1950, he had lived in Lawrence Township, where he and Polly built their home.

Dudley's special interest was Tower Club, to which he gave 30 years of service, including serving as chairman. He was also the backbone of the Class of '44 as a class officer, a Prade marshall, a reunion chairman, and (for 25 years) treasurer of each reunion including our 50th. At his death, he was one of only three classmates who had never missed a reunion. He and Polly attended every '44 midwinter reunion, loved to crosscountry ski, and delighted in traveling and walking tours with friends and classmates. His late son, Fred, was in the Class of 1982.

The Class of '44 shares in this great loss with Polly, his wife of 50 years; daughter Peggy Dennis; son Don; two grandsons; brother Eliot '43; his sisters; and the undergraduate and alumni members of Tower.

The Class of 1944