Frederick Rheinstein ’49

After 86 very busy years, Fred Rheinstein died Dec. 22, 2013.

Born in New York City Nov. 5, 1927, the son of Alfred Rheinstein 1911, Fred attended Phillips Exeter Academy. At Princeton, he majored in psychology, joined Court Club, and during a few short weeks in the summer of 1945, made a war-silenced WPRU sing again.

After college it was a non-stop gallop: Army service, stage manager, and then producer/director for NBC. During his career, Fred covered the historic Eisenhower trip to India, the Ruby/Oswald shooting, space shots, a solar eclipse (for which he won an Emmy), the Vietnam War, and maybe 10 presidential conventions. Then came the Post Group, a post-production company founded by Fred; and World Sports Enterprises, the nation’s leading independent racing-production company, which he also launched.

Fred leaves his wife, Suzanne; daughters Linda and Katherine; son David A. Rheinstein ’80; son-in-law Alexander Brodsky; granddaughters Beatriz and Frederica Brodsky, brother Robert Rheinstein ’51; seven nieces and nephews; and a great host of friends and admirers. To all of them, the class extends its sympathy on their loss of this fireball of energy and creativity.