Michael D. Loprete ’54

    Michael died May 10, 2023.

He prepared at Columbia High School and Villanova College, where he was a keen student and passionate basketball player. At Princeton, he majored in economics, joined Cannon Club, and played point guard in varsity basketball.  

His two years of service in the Army in West Germany engendered a lifelong passion for travel, languages, history, and literature. Michael graduated from Columbia Law School in 1959 and received a Fulbright Scholarship in 1961.

A partner in several leading New Jersey law firms, he specialized in corporate litigation of antitrust, intellectual property, and environmental law. From 1977 to 1981, he was in the legal department of AT&T, where he played a lead role in the government’s divestiture lawsuit against the Bell System. He later engaged in private practice and as general counsel and secretary of TeleManagement Forum, an international consortium of telecommunications and computer companies. 

Michael enjoyed studying languages, reading great works of literature (auditing a Dante class at Princeton), time with his family and friends, running, playing tennis, scuba diving, lifting weights, yoga, and Pilates well into his 80s. He organized and coached in Special Olympics and served as a governmental advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Michael is survived by his wife of 62 years, Nancy; his three sons Michael, Scott, and Gregg; and grandchildren Ashley, Ryan, Anna, Matthew, and Katie.