Frederick John Burghard Jr. ’45

Fred died Dec. 29, 2003, in Naples, Fla., where he had lived since 1980.

Fred prepared for Princeton at Choate. He was stroke and captain of the freshman 150-pound crew, and was a member of the fencing team and Colonial Club. In 1943 the Navy V-12 program took Fred to Cornell with many other engineers. He served in the Pacific theater.

After leaving the Navy he worked in advertising with several firms and lived in Louisville, Ky. He retired in 1980 and moved to Naples, where he was an active volunteer with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. He also worked for St. John's Episcopal Church and Naples Community Hospital.

Fred was predeceased by his first wife, Jacqueline. They had four children, all of whom survive: Barbara Eisenbeis, Cynthia Burghard, J. Fred Burghard II, and Dorothea Shepard. There are seven grandchildren. He also is survived by his second wife, Patricia Zeller Burghard, and by seven stepchildren. The class expresses sympathy to the family.

The Class of 1945