Maitland A. Edey Jr. ’58

Mait died Dec. 30, 2016, of complications from multiple myeloma at Massachusetts General Hospital.

He came to us from the Hotchkiss School. His father graduated from Princeton in 1932. Mait left our class after the first term of our sophomore year, returning in 1960. He graduated summa cum laude and won the philosophy prize. His freshman-year roommates were Mike Duncan and Fred Vohr.

Mait married Anna Jufors in April 1957 and lived in Europe, Brooklyn, and Cambridge. Always interested in jazz from his undergraduate days, he began writing for the Jazz Review and the American Record Guide. He enrolled at the Berklee College of Music and enjoyed playing the piano (blues, boogie, swing) all his life. Mait also always loved sailing, and he and a partner started Edey & Duff, making sailboats, which revived the beauty and functionality of traditional wooden sailing craft.

After his divorce and a difficult adjustment period, Mait devoted his time to meditation and the study and writing of philosophy. In 1988, he married Fausta Hammarlund on Martha’s Vineyard. He served on the board of the Vineyard Conservation Society and spent one term as its president. He was a recycler and an energy conserver long before these things became politically correct.

He is survived by Fausta, his three children, four stepchildren, and 18 grandchildren. To them all, the class extends its condolences.