Peter A.C. Neidecker ’47

Peter died Aug. 28, 2017, in Denver, where he lived with his wife, Dody. Peter was born in Paris and was schooled there until entering the Scaitcliffe Boarding School in Surrey, England; he then went on to Phillips Exeter Academy. At Princeton he majored in economics.

As a Navy ensign during World War II, Peter skippered a landing craft in the Philippines. After graduating from Princeton in 1948, he earned a master’s of engineering degree from Brown University, and married Dody Shaw in 1951 when she graduated from Smith College. His first employment was with Dominion Chain Co. in Niagara Falls, Ontario. They next moved to Denver, where he founded National Wire and Stamping in 1959 and invented the ski wicket to attach passes to the skier.

Peter volunteered as president of the United Way in Ontario; the Boys and Girls Club of Denver; and the Rotary Club in Englewood, Colo.; and was a trustee of the Kent School in Denver. He was an avid outdoorsman, enjoying tennis, skiing, fly-fishing, and sailing in the Mediterranean with Dody. They had three children, Sylvia, Peter, and Sally; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren to keep the family lineage going.

Peter and his charming wife attended a number of  ’47 mini-reunions in the West. The class sends its memories of this accomplished classmate to the family.