Jeanie McLaughlin Shaterian ’74

Jeanie died Dec. 17, 2017, in her house in Walnut Creek, Calif., after living with brain cancer for more than a year.

Jeanie’s life was characterized by her love of language and dedication to political activism. She majored in Romance languages and literature at Princeton. Post-graduation, she learned both Serbo-Croatian and the two official languages of Norway (Bokmål and Nynorsk) through auditing university courses and self-study. She published translations of texts from these languages and French into English. She wrote structured poetry and nurtured a lifelong love of Shakespeare. Her political activism centered on nuclear disarmament, Palestinian rights, and solidarity with and freedom for political prisoners. She credited her leftist activism to learning about Cambodia at Princeton.

Jeanie lived at the Princeton College Inn for all four years at Princeton. Her roommates were Coke Anne Murchison freshman year and Pamela Candusso sophomore year. She studied and taught piano at The New School for Music Study.

She was married to Don Boucher from 1974 to 1977. She was married to Alan Shaterian from 1982 to 1992.

She is survived by stepdaughter Barbara, daughter Larisa, step-granddaughters Bella and Lillie, and cousin Gordon Cranmer ’65 of Stavanger, Norway.