Lewis A. Clarke Jr. ’63

Pete was a keen fly fisherman, hunter, artist, musician, songster, tech executive, and antiques dealer who enriched the lives of all who knew him. He died May 4, 2017, after a 25-year struggle with Parkinson’s. Family and friends adored Pete’s courage, grace, and contagious enjoyment of life. “I’m not going to let this damned disease define me,” he once told a fellow Nassoon.

After growing up in Greenwich, Conn., and attending Hotchkiss School, he became a Princeton philosophy major, wrote a thesis on moral inquiry, and ate at Cap. He roomed with Mellor, Ridgway, and Gilbert, and remained a devoted member of the Nassoons and their alumni reunions. Music lit his life — surrounded by friends and family in his final years, he played the harmonica whenever he could, singing and sharing his favorite songs.

Pete’s business career focused on sales management for telecom companies, including Xerox, IBT, Rolm, Isoetec, and Brooktrout Technology, where he was manager of foreign sales. He later started The Sportsman’s Eye with his wife, Diane, in Hingham, Mass., specializing in antiques, sporting art, and decoys.

The class conveys its sympathies to Diane, daughter Jeanie, son Henry, stepson Christopher Knight, and sisters Vicky Linville and Debbie Moderow ’77.