Edgar Dutcher Romig ’42

Ed, rector of the Church of the Epiphany in Washington, D.C., for nearly three decades, died June 13, 2006, of a stroke. He was 84.

A philosophy major at Princeton, Ed was awarded the Bronze Star during World War II for valor in the Battle of the Bulge.

After a year at Harvard Law School and a life-changing bout with polio in 1947, during which he was almost completely paralyzed for six months, Ed "had time to think." He enrolled in Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass., earning a master's in divinity in 1951 and beginning his ministry at Trinity Boston. Until 1964, when he was called to Washington, Ed successively was rector of two churches in Massachusetts — Lynn and North Attleboro — where he said he had "rather exhausting, demanding, and yet rather exciting challenges" to build up the congregations.,

A candidate for bishop of Washington in 1977 and recipient of an honorary doctorate of divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary, Ed was active in the affairs of the Washington diocese and was a delegate to six triannual national Episcopal conventions.

Ed will be long remembered as an eloquent preacher and revered leader of his congregation during difficult times in the 1960s when racial riots inflamed the city.

The class conveys its condolences to his sister, Eleanor Jaquinet.