Edward Potter Lebens ’37

GENTLE GIANT ED LEBENS died of lung cancer on Sept. 11, 1993. He was a retired director and V.P. of The First Boston Corp., NYC, where he worked as an investment banker for 40 years.

He was born in St. Louis; prepared at John Burroughs School there; and, in his senior year, was chosen first citizen of the school. At Princeton, Ed majored in economics, and graduated with honors from the Woodrow Wilson School, He was a member of Cottage and Triangle clubs, played football all four years, and worked on the DAIFY PRINCETONIAN.

For three and a half years, Ed was a naval aviator in WWII, mostly as an instructor. With his wife, Cornelia, he came to many happy Princeton reunions. Of these he wrote, "I have invariably returned from every reunion I have attended with a feeling of having really 'gone back' and had an opportunity to review the accomplishments of past years against the 'dreams of youth~ that all of us had in June of 1937... a wonderful opportunity to gain perspective."

Ed's loves were St. Louis, Princeton, First Boston, and the Presbyterian Church. He was active in community affairs and a past governor ofThe Old Field Club in Stony Brook. fie worked hardest, however, for the Setauket Presbyterian Church, where he served as an elder and a member of a threeman investment committee.

Ed leaves his widow, Cornelia; three sons from his first marriage; his and Cornelids daughter, Cornelia (Kitty); two stepchildren; and six grandchildren.

The Class of 1937