Kenneth M. Seggerman Jr. ’47

Kenneth Seggerman died in New York, N.Y., Feb. 27, 1997, from complications after surgery.

Ken came to Princeton in the summer of 1943 from Lawrenceville. Later that year he entered the Marine Corps. He was discharged in 1946 and returned to Princeton. At the end of his junior year he entered Columbia Law School. At Columbia he was on the law review.

Ken became an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell. After eight years there he joined the legal staff of IBM, where he worked for over 20 years. He then became associated with the New York office of the Providence law firm of Edwards & Angell. For the last five or six years of his life he was retired and lived in NYC.

Ken had a strong interest in music and for several years was president of the National Orchestral Society. In earlier years he was a keen sailor and enjoyed a gentleman's game of tennis.

There were many Princetonians in his family, including his father, Kenneth M. '13; two uncles, Frederick T. '11 and Edward M. Crane '18; his brother Harry G. A. '49; two cousins, Frederick B. '43 and Edward M. Crane Jr. '45, and his stepbrother, Thomas W. Bakewell '43.

Ken's wife, HelenLouise K. Simpson, whom he married in 1951, died in 1995. To their children, Kenneth, Tobias, Sarah, and Victoria, the class extends its deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1947