Edgar Ivar Rhoden ’45

Ed died Oct. 10, 2004, at the Jenner's Pond Retirement Community in West Grove, Pa.

Ed entered Princeton from White Plains [N.Y.] High School. At Princeton, where he followed his brother, Robert '43, he joined Cannon Club and was on the golf team. His Princeton career was interrupted by service in the heavy weapons platoon of the Army's 84th Division. Ed saw combat in Germany and was wounded, for which he was awarded the Purple Heart.

On his return to Princeton he earned a bachelor's in chemical engineering in 1946, joined a division of DuPont in New Jersey, and married Joan Brutschy, also from White Plains, in 1949. They moved to be near the main offices of DuPont in Newark, Del. Ed's job took him to nine DuPont locations from New York to Texas to Florida, where he participated in plant startups and process evaluations. Ed initiated and developed several patented processes for DuPont. He retired from the company in 1984.

Ed was very proud that, although none of his three children attended Princeton, his two daughters graduated from Smith and Cornell, and his son graduated from Penn State. Ed is survived by Joan; daughters Laura Markham and Victoria Cohen; son Michael; two grandchildren; and his brother, Bob. The class expresses its sympathy to the family.

The Class of 1945