Joseph Day ’58

Joe died March 9, 2015, after a heart attack at his winter home in Princeville, Hawaii.

He prepared at Baltimore City College. At Princeton he majored in English and was a member of Tiger Inn, serving as vice president during his junior year and president his senior year.

Joe had journalism in his blood. His three brothers worked as journalists and his father, Price Day 1929, was a Pulitzer Prize-winner at The Baltimore Sun. From 1961 to 1970 Joe worked for the Milwaukee Journal and the Providence Journal.

Joe left the newspaper industry in 1970 to join WGBH-TV, a Boston PBS affiliate station, mainly because he felt this would give him an even stronger connection with the public. Later he worked for WCVB-TV and WNEV-TV in Boston, where he was the chief political affairs correspondent. In 1992 he moved to Santa Fe and became an adjunct professor at the College of Santa Fe and the University of New Mexico. He also made documentaries, including one titled Rio Grande: Live River or Dead Ditch?

Joe is survived by Nancy, his wife of 53 years; children Peter, Matthew, and Sarah; and seven grandchildren. The class extends sincere condolences to them all.