Julian Street Jr. ’25

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Pete Street, son of the noted author, was born in N.Y.C. Oct. 26, 1902. He died in Norfolk, Conn., Jan. 17, 1995. He prepared at Gilman School.

Pete was a prominent, popular member of the class. He was editorial chairman of the Daily Princetonian and cowrote a Triangle Club production, The Scarlet Coat. He was a member of Colonial and graduated with honors in English.

He became a reporter for the Paris edition of the N.Y. Herald Tribune. Back in America, he worked as a scriptwriter for NBC, where his adaptation of Booth Tarkington's Penrod was the first popular book to be adapted for broadcasting. In WWII, he organized the Book and Author War Bond Committee. He was v.p. of the Theodore Roosevelt Assn. and director of the Manhattan School of Music. He directed the education services of the U.S. Steel Corp. for 16 years before he retired in 1967.

He was a member of the Univ. Club of New York, the Century Assn., the Coffee Club, the Natl. Press Club, and the Dutch Treat Club. He was a past pres. of the Norfolk C.C., and he won the club's golf championship while in his 80s.

He is survived by his wife, Hella Morovec Street; daughters Amanda Palmer and Claudia Smith from his first marriage to the late Narcissa Vanderlip Street; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

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