Jervis Watson Burdick ’40

Lifetime secondary school teacher and administrator, housemaster, and coach, Jerry Burdick died Mar. 24, 1999, in Naples, Fla. Originally from Philadelphia, he prepared at Haverford School. At Princeton he graduated with honors in politics, was on the varsity track team, and joined Terrace Club. Then followed service as a naval officer. Jerry earned his master's in education from Harvard in 1948.

From then on Jerry commenced an uninterrupted 40-year career with the Northfield-Mt. Hermon School in Massachusetts as math teacher, housemaster, dean of students, and CFO. In addition he was a trustee of the Windsor Mountain School. In the summer he was associated with a number of Cape Cod resort hotels, including the Chatham Bars Hotel for 10 years.

Following retirement in 1983, Jerry and his wife, Mary Jane, moved permanently to Naples, where he was an active volunteer at the Guadalupe Center in Immokalee as trustee and treasurer.

The class respects and admires Jerry's dedication and contribution to education which so closely adhered to his Nassau Herald statement, "he will probably engage in teaching." We extend our condolences to his wife, Mary Jane, sister Marjory, brother James, and several nieces and nephews.

The Class of 1940