Lewis Rumford II ’26

Lew Rumford, well known in Baltimore and a loyal member of the class, died July 25, 1997, a cancer victim, at Broadmead, a retirement community near Baltimore, where Lew and his family had lived since 1985. Lew was active for many years in the limestone and dolomite industry, having joined Standard Lime & Stone Co. as a salesman in 1937. He became its president in 1954, when the company became a division of Martin Marietta. Lew continued as president until he retired in 1970.

Lew served in many capacities in the Baltimore community. He was a director of the First National Bank of Maryland and the Northern Central Railroad, and a corporator of the Savings Bank of Baltimore. He was a vestryman of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer; a director of the Princeton Alumni Assn. of Maryland and its president; a trustee member of the budget committee and the executive committee of the Community Chest of Baltimore, now the United Fund; a director of the Union Memorial Hospital; and a trustee of Goucher College and its acting chairman of the board in Apr. 1977.

Lew and Rose Clymer, a Wellesley graduate, were married Sept. 15, 1936, and over the years attended our reunions and joined in making them Princeton affairs to be remembered.

Lew is survived by Rose and three daughters, Beatrix Tyson Rumford, Ellen Rumford Bogardus, and Elizabeth Rumford Thwaite; by a son, Lewis III; and by eight grandchildren, to all of whom we extend our deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1926