Martin Hetzel Rittenhouse Jr. ’36

MARTY WAS born Nov. 19, 1913, and died Dec. 1, 1989, in Boca Raton, Fla. He graduated cum laude from Mercersburg Academy where he was on die tennis and track teams. At Princeton he majored in geology, was manager of the varsity tennis team, and a member of Colonial.

He served five years in WWII as an officer, transferring from field artillery to the U.S. Army Ordinance Dept He retired in 1945 as a major.

After the war, Marty engaged in several professions, including estate management, plastics manufacturing, corporate purchasing, real estate sales, yadit brokerage, and insurance.

Before finally moving to Florida, he and his wife, Edith, also operated a ranch in Gravette, Ark., in the Ozarks. A political conservative, his hobbies were training and showing quarter horses, tennis, and coin collecting. He was a V.P. of the Princeton Club of Southern Fla., and a member of its schools committee. He served as secretary of the Coral Harbour Yacht Club in the Bahamas.

Marty is survived by his wife, Edith Leiper Rittenhouse; a son, Martin III; a daughter, Edith R. Rose; and two grandchildren.

The Class of 1936