Edward Earnshaw Hastings ’51

Ed was born April 2, 1929, in Bryn Mawr, Pa., to John and Elizabeth Earnshaw Hastings.

He attended the Haverford School and Deerfield. At Princeton he majored in mechanical engineering, was active in WPRU, and belonged to Dial Lodge. Ed roomed with Clint Boxhorn, Lou Kelly, Dick Murphy, Fred Riehl, Sid Stone, and Dick Wythes.

After graduation he worked for the Glen L. Martin Co. in Baltimore as a system design engineer. From 1954 to 1956 he served in the Army, after which he worked at his family concern, Hastings & Co., manufacturers of gold leaf and vacuum-metalized films. He was the owner and founder of Keystone Dynamics, an industrial dust-control company. Ed and Barbara Shore were married in 1954.

He was a birder, an ocean sailor out of Southwest Harbor, Maine, and a member of the Church of the Redeemer, in Bryn Mawr, and of Merion Cricket Club.

Ed died April 12, 2017, in Villanova, Pa. He was predeceased by daughter Anne, his twin brother Joseph, and his sister Josephine. At the time of his death, he was survived by his wife, Barbara, who died Sept. 21, 2017. Ed is survived by children Gail Macdonald, Susan Lohmann, and Gabriela Bradt; nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and his brother, John.