Fernand Baruch ’44

Born in Yeadon, Pa., Ferdie prepped at Haverford. At Princeton he was on the football team, was a member of Ivy Club, and roomed with Walt Hughson and Andy Jones. He left to win a bronze star with the Army’s 10th Mountain Division in the Aleutians and the Italian Alps, returned for his geology degree in 1946, and became a Manhattan re-insurance executive while commuting from Princeton from 1954 to 1982.  

Ferdie was a past president of the Sarasota-Manatee Princeton Club. His late brother, Earle Baruch ’29, attended Princeton, as did two nephews, Earle Jr. ’54 and Richard ’60.  

Besides Margie, his survivors include sons Fernand Jr., Pieter, and Edward; daughters Margery McCarty, Linda Sullivan, and Lucy Baruch; and 16 grandchildren. In our 40th-reunion book, Ferdie, an avid naturalist, wrote of a day in Maine when he and Margie watched “three deer and a fawn swim ashore from an island, a pair of bald eagles hunting, and six loons just floating,” while catching salmon for supper. We will miss his sensitive touch.