Joseph E. Dittmar ’54

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    Joe died of complications of dementia  Jan. 12, 2023. 

He graduated from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., and was active in football, wrestling, and student government. At Princeton, he joined Cottage Club, majored in economics, and wrote his senior thesis on “The Changing Patterns of Location of the Chemical Industry from 1900 to the Present.”

After serving in Frankfurt, Germany, as a first lieutenant in the Army, Joe worked in investment banking on Wall Street for two years. He then joined his father’s firm, Dittmar & Co., in San Antonio. He left investment banking in the mid-1960s and spent most of his career investing in oil and gas. Joe retired to Bozeman, Mont., in 1997 to enjoy fishing, hunting, and golf in his beloved mountains.

He married Allie Autry Kelley in 1959, and together they raised four children: Katherine, Michael, Joseph Jr., and Edward. Allie died in 1983. Joe is survived by his children, five grandchildren, sister Betty Stone, and his lifelong best friend Richard Calvert ’54.

 

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