Frederic Grater Burk Jr. ’42

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Fred died in Philadelphia on Feb. 24, 1988, but we did not receive word of it until recently. At the time of his death, he was retired from the book-publishing industry, in which he had spent his entire career. He started with Westminster Press, the publishing arm of the Presbyte¬rian Church. He then worked with J. B. Lippincott for ten years, after which he was asked to join Oxmoor House, a new book publisher in Birmingham, Ala.

Fred grew up in Philadelphia and came to Princeton from Penn Charter. He majored in English and was a member of Campus Club. His father, Frederic Sr. '12, and his brother, John McK. '46 (both deceased), at¬tended Princeton.

To his widow, Patricia, his mother, and the rest of his family the class extends its most sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1942

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