Frank A. Peluso ’59

Frank died suddenly May 14, 2014, of congestive heart failure at home in New York City with his beloved wife, Emi (née Yamamoto), at his side. Born into a devoted Italian family and raised in Brooklyn, Frank was an exceptional tap dancer in his youth, performing regularly on major television networks. But he went on to far greater heights.

Coming to Princeton from Lafayette High School in Brooklyn, where he was senior-class president, Frank majored in physics and joined Wilson Lodge. He graduated magna cum laude, earned a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to study at Columbia, and then studied mathematical physics at Princeton on a Putnam Fellowship. This led to his interest in the mathematical vagaries of the stock market, and in 1970, he founded Market Systems Research, designed   to capture the wave structure of the marketplace. The firm remains a vibrant resource for money managers.

In his spare time, he had leading roles in major productions in New York as an operatic tenor. It was in this pursuit that he found himself rehearsing with a lovely young Japanese woman — she who was at his side when the curtain drew closed.

The class extends its sympathy to Emi; Frank’s daughter from a previous marriage, Desirée Hoffman; and his grandchildren, Christian, Ariel, Jean Luc, and Axel.