Ferdinand Schoettle Jr. ’55

Memorialize Andy Schoettle in 200 words? No way. Some details here, more to be found on the class website (www.princeton55.org).  

Born Aug. 17, 1933, the son of Ferdinand and Louise White Schoettle, Andy died of cancer Nov. 24, 2010, in Vero Beach, Fla. He was educated at St. Mark’s School and, after Princeton, earned a bachelor of laws degree with high honors plus a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in economics, all from Harvard.  

Andy’s Princeton roommates were S. Boyd, G. Caldwell, J. Quarles, W. Brown, R. Russell, R. Stinson, M. Bryan, G. Gray, and J. Griffin.

He married Enid Bok in 1965 and fathered two sons who, after their parents’ divorce, afforded Andy the opportunity to display in single parenting the same high degree of achievement that he had in academia. Andy was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, a clerk for Judge Learned Hand, a practicing lawyer, law school professor at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, visiting professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School.  

Sailing was Andy’s passion, and he skippered in the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.  

To his sons Michael and Derek Schoettle; his daughter, Katherine Long; six grandchildren; his siblings, Michael B. Schoettle, Joan Carville, Polly Miller, and Lucille Ford; and his Princeton roommates, the class sends sympathy and admiration for a life well lived.