Edwin Smith Carney II ’35

Born in Staten Island, N.Y., son of Philip Wildes Carney 1902, Ed died at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Medford, Mass., on Apr. 4, 2000, a month before his 87th birthday. He prepared for Princeton at Port Richmond H.S., where he was a sports manager and a magazine editor. At Princeton he majored in modern languages, winning second group honors junior year, and was an enthusiastic member of the Whig Hall debating panel. He also served as secretary of Terrace Club.

Ed studied at Columbia U.'s law school from Sept. 1935 to May 1938. Then, for some years the class lost track of him. Later, we discovered he had served with the Army Air Force in counter intelligence during WWII, returning to civilian life in 1946. He settled in Medford.

For the next several decades, Ed worked for an insurance company in Medford, rising to the post of general manager. Upon retirement he spent another 10 years or so employed in the offices of Albert Shaw, a well-known Medford attorney. He never married. His only survivor is his sister, Ethel B. Carney.

The Class of 1935