Edwin H. Folk III ’50

Ed died of emphysema on July 3, 2010, in Newtown, Pa.

Born in Atlanta, he graduated from Boys’ High School there. As a teenager, he played the viola and continued with music at Princeton by playing in the University Orchestra. He belonged to Campus Club and majored in English. He earned a master’s in city and regional planning at Georgia Tech in 1954.

Ed started his career in city planning in Chicago and then worked in Youngstown, Ohio. He next moved to the Philadelphia area, where he was executive director of a watchdog agency, the Citizens Council for City Planning, from 1962 until it closed in 1971. The next three years he was with the Mental Health Association of South­eastern Pennsylvania. He consulted for the Delaware Cancer Network in the late 1970s. Until his retirement in 1998, Ed was employed as a salesman for a ­computer-technology service.

A lifelong stamp collector, Ed was a member of the King George VI Collectors Society, which focuses on stamps issued during George’s reign (1936-1952).

We extend our sympathy to Miriam, Ed’s wife of 54 years; his son, Edwin IV; daughters Cathy, Ann, Ellison ’84, and Emily; and 11 grandchildren.