Kevin E. Cassidy ’59

Kevin died May 5, 2019, in Southampton, N.Y., from complications related to Alzheimer’s disease.

Born in Rochester, N.Y., Kevin and his family moved to Southampton when he was an infant, and he spent his childhood in the then-bucolic surrounds of eastern Long Island. Graduating as class salutatorian from Southampton High School (where he played the tuba in the marching band despite being tone-deaf and not able to read music), Kevin enrolled at Princeton as one of 10 students nationwide to receive a Grumman Corp. scholarship to study engineering.

During his freshman year Kevin joined the American Institute of Mining Engineers Society, but he left Princeton following that year and transferred to Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y. While there he met his future wife, Martha Mitchell, and they married the week following graduation. Kevin’s obituary states that he had a long career as an electrical engineer, working for Grumman, Long Island Lighting Co., a local architectural and engineering firm, and his own accident interpretation and reconstruction firm, Cassidy & Associates.

Kevin is survived by his wife, Martha; and daughter, Janet. We have sent condolences.