John Moore Updegraph Jr. ’51

John was born Sept. 1, 1929, in Elizabeth, N.J., and came to us from Union High.

At Princeton he earned a bachelor's in engineering, was vice president of Campus Club, and roomed with Marsh Arnold '52, Tom Baird, and Irvin Greif '52. John was in the NROTC program and spent three years in the Navy as a lieutenant junior grade on destroyer duty aboard the USS Picking during the Korean conflict. He graduated from Harvard Business School in 1956 and married Frederica Deitrick in 1957.

John had a varied and highly successful business career, primarily as a management consultant, starting out with Procter & Gamble for three years, then with McKinsey & Co. Inc. for 12 years, eventually becoming a principal in the firm and establishing its Zurich office. He returned to the States and worked in the Northeast until his retirement in 1990.

John died March 20, 2007. He is survived by his former wife, Frederica; their daughter, Rebecca Updegraph '82; sons John III and David; grandchildren Joshua, Darya, and Matthew; and his brother, Charles. The family would particularly appreciate donations in John's memory made to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.