Harold Sydney Edwards Jr. ’33

Hal Edwards died June 4, 1996. He had been an invalid for seven years as a result of a stroke, but he retained an unfailing cheerfulness and was happy to hear from and talk to George Constable, Walter Buck, and his many other friends in our class.

He grew up in Dedham, Mass., and prepared for Princeton at the Thacher School and at Andover. He entered in the Class of '32, but a dislocated elbow forced him to leave school and spend the rest of the year traveling in Europe. He dropped back to the Class of 1933 upon his return. Hal ran cross country, and was a highly respected member of our class.

Hal joined the family farming business in California during his junior year. He married Margaret Spaulding in Santa Barbara in 1939, and they moved to Marysville, Calif., where they lived for the rest of his life. The Edwards farming operations were described in an article written by his son Selden '63 which appeared in our 1993 summer newsletter. There is more about those operations in the Ralph Bard story which appeared in the 1991 newsletter.

Hal is survived by his wife, by their three sons, Samuel, Blair '61, and Selden '63, and by their daughter, Hannah. Hal's brother C. William Edwards, who was Princeton's director of admissions for 15 years, died in 1994.

The Class of 1933