Murray S. Scureman Jr. ’63

Murray died suddenly Aug. 18, 2017, at home in Potomac, Md. His career spanned computer engineering, government service, and home remodeling.

He grew up in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and entered Princeton from Wyoming Seminary with the Class of 1960. After the passing of Murray Sr. 1921, he took a leave to serve three years in the Army, and joined us in 1961. He was an electrical engineer, wrestler, and a member of Quadrangle.

He worked at IBM, earned an MBA from Harvard, and joined Singer Business Machines, where he sold the first point-of-sale computer system to Sears, Roebuck & Co. Next he held high-level jobs in the U.S. Department of Commerce before rising to vice president of federal operations at Amdahl Corp.

While redoing his own home he decided to become a full-time remodeler because a “hidden desire to do this kind of stuff sort of bubbled up,” he told CNN for a report on career changes. He ran Denman Development, often wielding tools alongside his crew, from 1998 until he retired in 2017.

Murray’s avocation was tennis, which he played almost daily. Friends knew him fondly as gentlemanly, intellectual, and affable. The class shares its sadness with his daughter, Dr. Colleen Scureman Kepner, and two grandchildren.