Edward W. Schall ’39

Surrounded by his loving family, Ed died July 23, 2012, at his home. He had retired to New York City in 1984 after his 28-year career as manager of the special litigation department at DuPont in Wilmington, Del.

After graduation, Ed earned a law degree from Harvard in 1942 and then served in the Army at Fort Dix, N.J., rising to staff sergeant. In 1946 he joined the firm of Cleary Gottlieb in New York, where he remained until moving to Wilmington in 1955. Ed was a past president of the Jewish Federation of Delaware and of the state’s Human Rights Commission. He was devoted to his family, The New York Times, and the Chicago Cubs.

As a freshman in 1935, Ed fulfilled the “compulsory chapel rule” by attending the informal Jewish services in Murray-Dodge. He said, “The service was run by an upperclassman (no faculty member was present), but one evening Einstein came and spoke to us.”

Ed’s wife of 64 years, Rhoda Miller Schall, died in 2009. To his four children, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandson, the class sends its love and sympathy.