Morton Rible ’61

Mort died of respiratory failure on May 19, 1999, in a hospital near Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., his home since 1978. Mort was a Woodrow Wilson major, a member of Key and Seal, and roomed with Geoff Smith, Mike Hewitt and Pierce Selwood.

Following Princeton, Mort earned a law degree at Stanford and an MBA from USC, after which he joined PSA Inc. (Pacific Southwest Airlines), in 1978. He first worked in Chicago, then in San Diego, where he founded the San Diego Travel Group. In 1995, he founded Business Backers Management Corp., a private enterprise alternative to the Small Business Administration, insuring loans that banks make to small and medium-sized businesses. He was a founding director of the Rancho Santa Fe Community Foundation, trustee of Rancho Santa Fe Youth Inc., and an avid runner and hiker.

He is survived by his wife, Ann, daughters Kimberly and Kristen, and a brother, Justin. We join them in mourning his passing.

The Class of 1961