Edward F. Rivinus ’37 *50

Foreign policy expert, Smithsonian senior science editor, and avid hunter, Ted Rivinus died Nov. 3, 1998, in an auto accident. His 44-year marriage to Esther ended in divorce, but he left sons Francis, David, and Andrew, daughters Marianna and Liandra, 12 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. Firstborn son Edward '63 died in 1983.

At Penn Charter Ted was into soccer, squash, and the glee club. At Princeton he majored in English and graduated with honors; he was on the polo team and v.p. of Terrace.

After working in insurance he entered the Army as a second lieutenant and rose to lieutenant colonel, seeing action with the Field Artillery and Allied Liaison Service in Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno, Southern France, Rhineland, and Central Europe, sweating out the Anzio Beachhead. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre. He was in the Foreign Service (1946-70), vice-consul in Istanbul (1946-49), consul in Izmir, Turkey (1950-53), and second secretary in Vienna (1953-57), where he headed Hungarian refugee work. After other posts, he ended with a U.S. European Command in Stuttgart from 1967-70. Next came volunteer work for the Smithsonian, serving as acquisitions editor for natural sciences and retiring in 1987 as director emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution Press.

The Class of 1937