Edward K. Dey ’58

Ed died Nov. 2, 2022, in Paris, France. He was 85.

He came to Princeton from Locust Valley Friends Academy, where he sang with the glee club, played tennis and basketball, and was a member of the International Affairs Club.

At Princeton, he was in the Woodrow Wilson School and joined Dial Lodge, where he was on the IAA senior board, and was an active member of the Westminster Fellowship.

After graduation, Ed earned a master’s degree from the University of Michigan. He entered the foreign service in Washington, West Africa, and Paris. Then he changed careers to go into banking. He met Odile Alquier at the Embassy in Paris, and they married in 1972. Ed became a banking consultant, mostly for USAID and the World Bank. 

Unknown to most classmates, his hopes of shooting his age at golf came from his father, Joseph, who won nearly every award the golf world offers; and from his mother, Rosalie, chair of the Women’s Committee of the U.S. Golf Association.

Ed is survived by Odile, their daughter Alix, his son-in-law Olivier, and his grandchildren Alexandre and Juliette. The class extends its deepest sympathy to them all.