Edgar M. Lucas ’32

Ed Lucas died Jan. 30, 1999, of cancer at the Blakehurst Life Care Community in Towson, Md.

After leaving Princeton, Ed attended Johns Hopkins for a year to study business administration, then found a position in the newly formed investment management department of Mackubbin, Legg & Co. In 1935 he went to work for The General Utilities and Operating Co., with whom he was associated for many years, as a security analyst, and eventually became president and director. He retired in 1969 as president to become a private investor in his own office in Towson. He had bought a large farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland where he raised Black Angus cattle and became a director of the Maryland Aberdeen Angus Assn. Eventually, however, he became intensely interested in raising racehorses, and at the time of his death he was known as one of Maryland's most prominent thoroughbred breeders and enthusiasts.

During WWII, Ed spent three years with the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, serving as its chief accountant and attaining the rank of captain. He was a lifelong golfer and former club champion at the Baltimore Country Club and was president of the Maryland State Golf Assn. and the MidAtlantic Golf Assn.

Ed is survived by his son Dale and three grandchildren. The class offers them its sincere condolences.

The Class of 1932