Henry d'A. Heck ’61

Henry died of multiple myeloma Oct. 13, 2014, in Norfolk, Va.

Born in Bryn Mawr, Pa., he prepared for Princeton at De La Salle High School. At Princeton, Henry ate at Colonial Club, majored in chemistry, and played freshman tennis and varsity squash. Among his roommates were Dave Draudt, Cliff Conway, and Jim Dolvin.

Following a Ph.D. in chemistry at Northwestern, he was a National Science Foundation fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Germany and then embarked on an academic career at Berkeley and the Stanford Research Institute. Henry worked for 22 years with the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology in North Carolina. He was active in the toxicology community, writing many papers and reviews and serving as editor-in-chief of the Toxicological Sciences journal. He was an avid sailor.

He is survived by Mercedes Casanova, his wife of 30 years; two daughters, Katherine and Julia, and their husbands; six grandchildren; stepchildren Lara and John; and several step-grandchildren. We offer them all our condolences.