Frederick J. Stevenson Jr. ’55

Frederick J. "Ted" Stevenson Jr., an environmental officer of the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, died Feb. 6, 1998, of malignant melanoma in Pittsburgh.

Ted attended Sewickley and Deerfield Academies, where he was active in sports. At Princeton, he majored in English and French literature, played freshman soccer, worked on the advertising staff of the Princeton Tiger, and joined Tiger Inn and the 21 Club. After Princeton, Ted attended the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. He served in the Army for two years in Western Germany and studied in France as a Fulbright scholar.

Ted spent his professional life in public service and was proud of the wide area served by the Pittsburgh HUD office. The City of McKeesport issued a proclamation, noting among other things that Ted's untimely death "interrupted decades of continuous public service" in the McKeesport and Mon Yough area. He will be remembered for his devotion to family and to his public constituency, for whom he cultivated the concept of home. Ted loved to travel and for nearly 60 years enjoyed summers in Georgian Bay, Canada.

He is survived by his wife, Sally, sons Frederick J. III and William Edwards, daughter Elizabeth Burd, two grandsons, and sister Blair S. Fleischmann. To them the class extends deep sympathy.

The Class of 1955