Fitzmaurice Kelley ’59

Born in Manchester, N.H., Fitz came to Princeton from Williston Academy. He was with us at Princeton for only a short while, leaving in the fall of our sophomore year. He then earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Massachusetts, where he took courses in hotel and restaurant administration.

Fitz served with the 1st Cavalry Division in Korea, then taught special education in St. Thomas, USVI. His true calling, however, was the hotel/restaurant business. He spent most of the last four decades of his life in his beloved Vermont, working in positions from bartender to maître d’hôtel to general manager and innkeeper for the Mount Snow Hotel Corp.  

His love of skiing and the hospitality industry took him to Stratton Mountain, and when he wasn’t running the base lodge bar, he was on the slopes. He strayed from Vermont only as far as New Hampshire, where he worked as general manager of the Friar Tuck Pub in Salem and the Hillside Inn in East Hebron.

Fitz is survived by a son, Andrew; two former wives; three brothers; and two sisters.