Irving Bowdoin Kingsford ’42

Irv died of pulmonary emboli Sep. 22, 1999, at the Medical Center at Princeton. Following a career in prefabricated home sales, communications, and venture capital start-ups, he retired to Princeton, where he was very active in civic affairs.

After attending Groton, he majored in politics at Princeton, graduating with honors and receiving honorable mention for the Lyman H. Atwater prize in politics. He was also a member of Terrace Club. During WWII, he spent four years with the U.S. Army field artillery in the American theater, attaining the rank of captain.

Following several years with Gunnison Homes as sales manager, he worked briefly in product planning for RCA in NYC. He then turned to the venture capital field as v.p. of the investment and brokerage firm Walker & Hart. He was a trustee of Miss Mason's School, the Stony Brook Watershed Assn., and served on the boards of Hopewell Township Planning Committee, Friends of the University Art Museum, the Nassau Club, and Terrace Club. He was very active in '42 class affairs, managing off-year reunions.

To his widow, Lewie, sons Daniel and Michael, daughter Kathleen, stepdaughters Anne, Betsey, and Eleanor, and his three grandchildren, the class offers its most profound sympathies.

The Class of 1942