Mortimer Edgerton Newcomb Jr. ’29

EDGE DIED Sept. 8, 1990. He had prepared for college at Westfield High School. At Princeton he played lacrosse and was on the pistol team, band, glee club, and Theatre Intime.

Edge started working in a family business, then changed to Gimbels and later Saks. He received an master's in 1933 from N.Y.U.'s school of retailing, then went to Marshall Field as inventory controller. In 1938 he became controller for Colonial Drapery Fabrics, and after two years went to Moore Business Forms. His work in methods engineering took him to Bell Aircraft and the Carborundum Co.; and then he went into data processing and systems analysis for the U.S. Navy. He thought of retiring in 1982, but the Navy wanted Edge to take over direction of a project in Kuwait. Edge's fine bass voice took him into choral singing, and he was active in the Westfield community players. He traveled extensively. He was an officer of the Camp Hill area chapter of A.A.R.P., and was active in the Presbyterian Church of Camp Hill. Cruising was a favorite sport.

In 1938 Edge married Kathryn Taylor, and she survives, as do their two children: Peter, and Mary N. Parker. The Class extends sincere sympathy to Edge's family.

The Class of l929