Edward Reilly Ralston ’34

Pat Ralston, who retired in 1976 from DuPont Co. as a cost engineer after 35-plus years, died of heart failure at Crosslands retirement community in Kennett Square, Pa., on Apr. 2. His last 10 years with DuPont were with DuPont Intl. plants in Ireland, England, Holland, Luxembourg, Germany, and Brazil.He served as a supervisor of Birmingham Township in Chester County, Pa., for 12 years and as a board member of the Chadds Ford Historical Society in the mid-1980s.

"One of my greatest satisfactions," he wrote not long ago, "is having become a Friend (Quaker), and we have been fairly active in our Birmingham meetins. Currentlt enjoy surf-fishing (my golf game has degenerated to croquet!), Scottish country dancing, reading, and chess."

During WWII Pat served as an air traffic controller with the rank of capt. in the Army Air Corps in both Europe and the South Pacific. In 1962 he became a member of the Unionville-Chadds Ford school board. He lived at Keepsake on the Brandywine River in Chadds Ford, "an old country house with large gardens," in his words, for 31 years.

In 1948 Pat married Sonia Scott, who survives, as do their three sons, Peter, Mark and David, and five grandchildren. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934