Peter I. de Roetth ’50

Pete died Oct. 16, 2020, in New Hampshire.

Pete was born in Budapest, Hungary, and immigrated to Spokane, Wash., with his family in 1939. He entered Princeton from Gonzaga Preparatory School. A politics major at Princeton, he was an associate editor of The Daily Princetonian and belonged to Campus.

Following graduation from Harvard Law School in 1953, he served two years in the Army, mostly in France. After five years as a security analyst, he founded Account Management Corp., a portfolio-management business in Boston that he led for more than 50 years. He served on boards of organizations he cared about, including Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Discovering Justice.

With his family he enjoyed sailing, skiing, traveling in Europe, horseback riding in Montana, and building trails in the woods around New Boston, N.H. He was a voracious reader and wrote witty poems.

Ever playful, he was known for riding his scooter around Boston streets. His first date with his wife, Lisa, whom he married in 1959, was skiing in the precipitous Tuckerman Ravine in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.

Pete was predeceased by Lisa in 2008. He is survived by son Christopher, daughters Elizabeth and Louisa ’91, and six grandchildren.