Frederick Oreilly Hayes ’45

Fred died June 30, 2002. He was a resident of Utica, N.Y. He entered Princeton from Utica Free Academy and remained only a year, transferring to Hamilton College near his hometown. After being elected to Phi Beta Kappa he obtained his degree from Hamilton. Fred received graduate degrees in economics and government from Harvard and worked in the Bureau of the Budget in DC, before becoming an assistant commissioner of the Urban Renewal Administration in 1961 and deputy director of the Community Action Program in the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1964.

In the administration of John Lindsay, Fred was the budget director for the City of New York and then moved to Lexington, Mass., to organize his own public policy and management consulting firm.

Fred retired in 1997 and moved back to his hometown to resume his love affair with the Adirondacks. Fred taught at Yale and at Boston U. and wrote several books on public policy. He returned to Princeton many times in later years to serve on the advisory council of the Woodrow Wilson School.

In 1948, Fred married the former Ann Spears, who survives him, along with their two sons, Reilly and Christopher, daughter Sara, and grandson Alexander. The class expresses its sympathy to them all.

The Class of 1945