Harleston Reed Wood ’36

Woody died Apr. 21, 1995, in Stuart Fla. He prepared at the Haverford School. At Princeton, he majored in economics and was a member of Key and Seal.

During WWII he served as intelligence officer in the Navy, then was a naval liaison officer to the Oceanographic Institution at Woods Hole, Mass. He retired from active duty in 1946 as a lieutenant.His career was devoted to the Alan Wood Steel Co. In 1955, he was elected president, a member of the fifth generation of his family to hold this position. He later became chairman and retired in 1984.

He was a member of the American Iron and Steel Institute, and he held the post of U.S. delegate to the Steel Committee of the Economics Committee for Europe for almost ten years. He served the United Fund of Philadelphia and was its Torch Committee Campaign chairman in 1971.

He served on the boards of the Budd Co., Fidelity Mutual Insurance Co., The Birdsboro Corp., The Hospital of the Univ. of Pennsylvania and Ursinus College.

Woody is survived by his wife, Emily Newbold Campbell, whom he married in 1942; sons Harleston R. Jr., Alan IV, Ross G., M. Campbell, Anthony B.; and five grandchildren.

We will remember this loyal Princetonian and his meaningful life.

The Class of 1936