Edgar Moore Finck Jr. ’37

Faithful reuner and football and lacrosse game attendee Ed Finck died Oct. 29, 1999. His wife, Janice, had predeceased him, but he left stepdaughter Donna Dotsch, son Ed III, and several grandchildren.

At Toms River [N.J.] H.S., Ed was on the basketball and baseball teams, debating panel, publications board, and student government council. He majored in psychology at Princeton and was on the freshman swimming and lacrosse teams and then on the varsity lacrosse team with Stony Stollenwerck that tied for the national collegiate championship in 1937. He was also v.p. and sports director of Court Club.

After graduation, Ed worked with Phelps Fenn and Co. as a statistician before being a house master at Girard College in Philadelphia and entering the Merchant Marine for four years, ending up a lt. j.g. and having traveled on liberty ships to India, Australia, and England. By 1947, he was a "detail man" for US Vitamin Corp. promoting sales to physicians of pharmaceutical products. His final stop was the Deal Variety Store in Deal, N.J. He was also a member of the Ocean Township board of education.

The Class of 1937