Frederick William Brown ’28

FRED BROWN died on May 18, 1989, in York, Me., where he had retired after 44 years with the N.Y. Telephone Co. in offices in N.Y.C. and Westchester County. During his 37 years of residence in Scarsdale, he gave generously of his time and talents to community government and activities. Dedicated to service of youth, for ten years he was a scoutmaster for a troop of 60 boys. He was an elder in the Hitchcock Memorial Presbyterian Church, founded a men's club there, and was a teacher in the church school.

In WWII he was an officer in the U.S. Navy, stationed at the Bureau of Ships in Washington, D.C. In Maine, after retirement, he continued his interest in civic and church affairs. He was a trustee and treasurer of the Old York Historical Society, volunteered in the Hospital Auxiliary, and was a deacon of the First Parish Church and trustee of its cemetery. Fred's hobby was sailing, and he served as an instructor and officer in the U.S. Power Squadron for many years.

Fred was born in Princeton and graduated from Princeton High School. He leaves his widow, Lillian Calder Brown, whom he married in the University Chapel on Aug. 13, 1932; a son, the Rev. Frederick Hobert Brown, of Westboro, Mass.; a daughter, Betty Brown Dietrich, whose husband, the Reverend Wendell S. Dietrich '51, is a professor of religious studies at Brown; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Fred was a loyal Princetonian and faithful attender of class reunions.

The Class of 1928