Jose M. Ferrer III ’61

Joe died May 12, 2018, after a long battle with several illnesses at his lifelong home in Manhattan.

Born in New York City, he came to us from Canterbury School. At Princeton he majored in English and the American Civilization Program, served four years on The Daily Princetonian staff and was chairman our senior year, and took his meals at Colonial. His roommates were Jay Parsons and Dave Forney.

Starting right after graduation, Joe spent most of his long career with Time magazine as a writer, senior editor, managing editor of the international edition, and member of corporate management. His two brief non-Time stints were with Nuestro, a bilingual magazine for the Latino community, which he co-founded, and Politics Today. After retiring in 2006, Joe taught journalism at Columbia. He was an opera buff and spent his summers in Wellfleet, Mass. He was our class secretary from 1961 to 1966.

Joe is survived by his wife of 52 years, Penny; sons Alex and Jose IV and their families; two granddaughters; and four siblings, including Thomas ’64 and James ’70.