Harold Alvin Weideli Jr. ’53

Hal, who was mayor of New Providence, N.J., from 1978-99 and a councilman for 20 years before that, died of a heart attack on Feb. 28, 2002.

After graduation with a major in public and international affairs, Hal spent two years as a lieutenant in the artillery, married Mary Jane Beck in 1955, and then received his Harvard law degree. He was a US attorney in Newark, worked for N.J. Bell, and was a senior lawyer for AT&T for eight years before serious back problems forced him into early retirement. He was a member of the N.J. Bar Assn. and the local Red Cross chapter. He entered from Hackensack HS, belonged to Whig-Clio, and was in Dial Lodge. He roomed with Al Fried and Roger Miller, who recall Hal's friendliness. Mary Jane said that Hal was proud to be a Princeton graduate, and that he gave her and their children—daughters Jane Ott, Mary Anne Barlow, and Susan Radosta, and sons James and Thomas—a good life. Also surviving are 16 grandchildren and sister Patricia Mahoney. Close friend Garland Boothe '54 put it well saying, "Princeton has lost a loyal son."

The Class of 1953