Everard K. Pinneo ’48

Ev, our class president, died Aug. 2, 2024, at home in Princeton.

Born in Elizabeth, N.J., Ev prepped at the Pingry School before entering Princeton. He graduated in 1950 with a degree in economics, having spent two years in the Navy Reserve. Ev was a member of Charter Club and undergraduate director of the Princeton Summer Camp in Blairstown, an experience that would impact his professional career.

After five years of selling Owens-Corning fiberglass insulation, Ev leaned on his experience interviewing Princeton applicants for the Alumni Schools Committee and rose to director of admissions at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He served as admissions director at the University of Pittsburgh for four years and as assistant vice chancellor of the State University of New York, which comprised 67 campuses, for 15 years.

Ev’s work brought him back to Princeton in 1979, when he became executive director of the Princeton Educational Center at Blairstown (formerly the Princeton Summer Camp). Roles as the director of development, trustee, and honorary trustee extended Ev’s affiliation with the institution for nearly eight decades. There and at the Trenton After School Program, Corner House, and many other nonprofit organizations, he worked for what he spoke of in our 50th-reunion yearbook as “the undying hope of peace and justice for all.”

Princeton also benefited from Ev’s dedication to service. Class president since 2016, he was Reunions chair, class agent for Annual Giving, an ASC interviewer, and Reunions panelist — not to mention a Reunions stalwart and sole classmate at the last few P-rades.

Ev was married to Katharine (Kay) Anne Salter from 1962 until her death in 2019. He is survived by his son Tom, daughter Nell, and two grandsons. Ev will be deeply missed.