Kenneth R. Murray ’60

At Haddonfield (N.J.) High School, Ken played baseball, football, and basketball for four years. At Princeton, he played three years of varsity basketball and both junior varsity and varsity football. He also balanced an economics major with a lively social life at Tiger Inn, along with Navy ROTC. The latter led to three years aboard the USS Saratoga, and he married Sue Laird in 1961.

Ken began his banking career with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1963. Over time, he earned an MBA from New York University in 1967 and became an expert participant in the transition of the national banking system from local and regional enterprises to fully national institutions. After successfully serving four such expanding organizations, Ken retired from Wells Fargo Bank in 1999 shortly after it acquired Norwest Bancorp, his last and longest employment.

Ken moved with Sue to Naples, Fla., where he was long active in charitable work, especially for health-related causes. He began the Class of ’60 planned giving effort and endowed a fund to support student scholarships.

Predeceased by Sue in 2016, Ken died March 5, 2024, in hospice care. He is survived by his wife, Jackie; two daughters; and four grandchildren, to whom the class expresses its sympathy.