Jeffrey Albert ’64

 Jeff Albert died of liver failure in Boston on July 28, 2016. He was at Princeton for little more than one year and, according to his high school chum and fellow member of the Class of ‘64, Marty Seligman, Jeff was a striking figure: “He had been my classmate and close friend at the Albany Academy ‘60, and if a class can be said to have a god, he was it. Jeff was a poet of stature at a young age, and he excelled at everything he touched. After he left Princeton, he struggled in and out of addiction. But his wit and his wisdom could transcend. At age 50, he lectured to my Abnormal Psychology class at Penn. He said, memorably, ‘the morphines make you feel loved in the absence of actual love. The cocaines make you feel powerful in the absence of actual power.’ He co-wrote a book about addiction with Harvard Medical School Professor William E. McAuliffe, titled Clean Start: An Outpatient Program for Initiating Cocaine Recovery. There were some very talented people in Princeton ’64, and Jeff was among them. His adulthood was a portrait of the titanic battle of individual choice and high talent with merciless drugs.”

He is survived by his sons, Jordan and Ben; his daughter, Jessie; and his sister, Amie.