Louis T. Klauder ’30

Louis Thornton Klauder, who spent 20 years championing the Philadelphia PATCO High-Speed Line and inspired many of its most innovative features, died Aug. 19, 1999.

He had lived in Moorestown, Pa., for 70 years before moving to Beaumont at Bryn Mawr, Pa., in 1992.

At Princeton Lou was a member of the Gateway Club. In recent years he had served as v.p. and treas. of the class. He will be greatly missed.

In 1973 he was named Delaware Valley Engineer of the Year and received the Franklin Institute's Henderson Medal for "outstanding contributions to the field of rail transit services."

He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Moorestown and had served as an elder. Lou was president of the Union League in Philadelphia in the late 1980s.

He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Elizabeth; sons Louis T. Jr., James and John; a daughter, Nancy Klauder Hall; 13 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. The class extends its deepest sympathy to his family.

The Class of 1930