Frederic Leake Jr. ’39

Ted died July 7, 2000, in Beaufort, S.C., where he had moved after he retired from a 40-year association with NL Industries (National Lead) located in Charleston, W.Va. He married Frances Dean Reed in 1942. In the same year he was commissioned an ensign USNR but received a medical discharge in 1943. They had two sons, Frederic III and Dean, and a daughter, Ann, before they divorced. In 1956 Ted married Ann "Mitzi" Detamore, with whom he had a second daughter, Susan. What we know of Ted's life comes largely from what he wrote of it in our major reunion books. Coming to us from Exeter, he majored in chemical engineering and was a member of Ivy. He said his athletics were strictly limited to golf and claimed to be as inactive as he could possibly arrange things. He was a member of the Royal Pines Golf Club and the Princeton and Exeter Alumni Associations.

He is survived by his two sons and two daughters, six grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren, and his sister, Shirley Tower. We offer them our sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1939