Karen Eloise Kenney ’77

Karen died Sept. 26, 2005, two weeks into a planned seven-week vacation in Australia with her husband, Thomas Brown ’75.

Karen, who was born in Brooklyn Nov. 9, 1953, and attended high school in Milan, Italy, entered Princeton with the Class of 1975 and graduated with ’77 after majoring in Romance languages and literatures. She went on to earn an MBA from the University of Colorado in 1984. Later she obtained her CPA certificate. She began her career in the tax practice at Arthur Andersen in Denver, became vice president of financial performance and tax at J.D. Edwards, and later became vice president of tax at PeopleSoft.

As an alumna, she served with the Alumni Schools Committee in Denver. Besides Tom, she is survived by her stepmother, Judith Downie of London; her nieces, Jaime and Emily Robinson; her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Vada and David Robinson; and her mother-in-law, Edith Brown. To all of them, the class expresses its condolences.