He came to us from Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Mass., where he was active in football, baseball, and hockey. Ed majored in English, joined Cottage Club, played varsity hockey, captained varsity baseball, and was a member of Roy Heath’s Advisee Project. (Years later he was to persuade Heath to produce the Class of 1954’s 25th-reunion volume “Princeton Retrospectives: Twenty-Fifth-Year Reflections on a College Education,” based on interviews with the members of the project and other classmates.)

He married Anne G. Bolster in June 1954, and they raised two daughters, Joanna and Sarah.

After two years of service in the Army and earning an MBA at Harvard Business School, Ed embarked on a variety of ventures including capital investment, real-estate development, and financial consulting. Between 1967 and 1975 he was an analyst for Fidelity and for T. Rowe Price. He then became managing trustee of family holdings in Cambridge and Natick, Mass., from a base in Cape Cod, where he and Anne also enjoyed community-service projects.

A “Reasonable Adventurer,” to employ Heath’s term, Ed’s indomitable curiosity led him to master golf, fishing, photography, computers, graphic arts, and genealogy, among other things. 

Anne died in 2012. Ed is survived by his wife of nine years, Maura Jean O’Donnell Stimpson; his two daughters; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Undergraduate Class of 1954