Orman Weston Ketcham ’40

Orm died from cancer at his home Dec. 14, 2004. His beloved wife of 57 years, Anne Phelps Stokes "Bunty" Ketcham, was at his side.

After Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School in Brooklyn, he followed his cousin, Jack Eadie '36, to Princeton. He majored in history and graduated with honors. Orm was on the lacrosse team, the editorial staff of The Tiger, was manager of the Herald-Tribune sales agency, and a member of Quadrangle Club.

Orm earned a law degree from Yale Law School in 1947. He entered government service in the Foreign Operations Administration and the Department of Justice. In 1957 he became the judge of the DC Juvenile Court and, subsequently, of the DC Superior Court as well as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University.

During his long life of public service, he served two terms as moderator at Westmoreland Congregational United Church of Christ; vice chairman of the Chevy Chase Village Council; and belonged to the Chevy Chase and Cosmos clubs.

Survivors, in addition to Bunty, include four daughters, Ann Ketcham Felder, Ketch Ryan, Betsy Ketcham Mercogliano, and Susan Stokes Ketcham; two sons-in-law, Allie C. Felder III and Christopher Mercogliano; his life partner, Anne Casscells; and six grandchildren. To them, his classmates wish to extend their deep sympathies.

The Class of 1940