Peter H. Benziger ’47

PETE DIED SUDDENLY of a heart attack May 19, 1991. After graduating from the Portsmouth Priory School, he joined our Class with the original contingent in July 1943. He left after freshman year to join the Navy and he saw service in the Pacific. Returning to Princeton after the war, he received a degree in mechanical engineering in 1949. He was a member of Dial Lodge and was active in the sailing club.

A native New Yorker, Pete moved to the Washington, D.C., area after graduation, and he spent his entire career with the Potomac Electric Power Co. He started as a junior engineer and rapidly rose to various management positions, including the superintendency of the Chalk Point generating Station, one of the largest fossil fuel plants in the country, At his death, he was president of the Potomac Capital Investment Corporation, a subsidiary of Potomac Electric.

Despite his heavy business commitments, Pete found the time to be active for over ten years with the Princeton Schools and Scholarship Committee in Washington. This loyal son of Princeton will be missed by all who knew him. He is survived by his wife, Joan; two children from his previous marriagea son John and a daughter Elizabeth Davis; his father, Alfred F.; and a brother, Alfred S.'51. To each of them the Class extends its deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1947