Edward L. Schrauth III ’63

Ed began his business career in the hotel industry, became a successful restaurateur, and then founded a fish wholesaler business in Beaufort, S.C., where he died April 4, 2014, from COPD.

He went to school in Albany, where his family manufactured ice cream that was distributed across upstate New York. At Princeton he majored in English, belonged to Quadrangle, and roomed senior year with Esser, Lasky, Masella, Reese, and Rife. Summers meant work at Sankaty Head Beach Club on Nantucket Island, where he met his first wife, Nancy. They had three children.

After graduation he worked in hotel management at The Greenbriar, the Breakers, and the Whiteface Inn. Then he owned restaurants, first in Albany (the Cranberry Bog) and later in Boston. Next he was a self-proclaimed “fish guy,” whose adventures ranged from commercial swordfishing to wholesale fish distribution to summers in the late ’80s and early ’90s running the Straight Wharf Fish Store on Nantucket.

In the mid-’90s, Ed built a successful wholesale business for Inland Seafood in Beaufort. Soon after arriving there, Ed met his wife, Susan. The class extends its sympathy to her; Ed’s children, Ted, Kendra, and Dan; 10 grandchildren; and Susan’s children, Justin, Ben, Molly, Lucia, and Sam.