Morton Lewin ’57 *60

Morton Lewin died unexpectedly but peacefully in his sleep Feb. 20, 2013. He was 81.

Mort grew up in the Bronx and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, where he was salutatorian of his class and a wingback and play caller of the football team.

After a semester at Princeton, Mort enlisted in the Army band during the Korean War and was stationed in the Panama Canal Zone. He returned to Princeton in 1954 and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1957. He added a master’s degree in 1958 and a Ph.D. in 1960.

Mort worked at RCA for 14 years, during which he was awarded more than 10 patents and received the “Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer” award from the national electrical engineering society in 1966. In 1972, he transitioned to academics as a full professor at Rutgers University, where he remained until his retirement in 1999.

Mort played saxophone and piano and performed in and around Princeton for years, including a two-year stint at the Nassau Inn’s Yankee Doodle Tap Room in the 1970s.

Mort is survived by Suki, his wife of more than 60 years; children Cherie, Brandon, Julie ’82, and Gene ’84; sisters Ruth and Sondra; and eight grandchildren. He will be remembered for his love of jazz, devotion to his family, and his brilliant mind. The class sends condolences to his family.