Gerardo Angulo Mestas ’78

Gerry died Oct. 23, 2015, in an automobile accident during a business trip to the Dominican Republic.

Gerry came to Princeton from John Jay High School in Cross River, N.Y. At Princeton he was an exuberant member of Tiger Inn. He majored in politics, was awarded advanced standing, and studied Arabic for a year at the Yale University Graduate Language Institute before graduating from Princeton. Thereafter, Gerry earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1980.

A successful Wall Street investor in the 1980s, he relocated to Puerto Rico in the early 1990s, where he promptly bought the San Juan Star, the island’s award-winning English-language newspaper, and served as its publisher until 2008. Gerry, a dynamic Cuban-American businessman and media entrepreneur who called Puerto Rico home for more than two decades, continued a very active business life in Puerto Rico and expanded operations into the Dominican Republic.

Remembered by the class for his cheerful, outsized personality, he was most importantly the devoted son of Dr. Ricardo and Rosario Angulo, the doting and proud dad of Ricky and Matthew, and the admiring brother of Ricardo Angulo Jr., who predeceased him. To them the class extends its deepest condolences on our mutual loss.