Ralph D. Osborne Jr. ’35

RALPH WILL be keenly and widely missed. Foremost among his many Princeton friends were his five roommates, but they also included his Cottage Club colleagues and his teammates on the 150pound football squad, the 150pound crew, and the freshman hockey team.

After Princeton, Ralph joined the familyowned manufacturing firm C. S. Osborne & Co., in Harrison, N.J., which he served as president for 30 years. During those years, he lived in West Orange, his birthplace, where he nurtured a host of childhood friendships, one ofwhich led to his marriage, in 1937, to Ann "Nancy" Lea. Other friendships developed with Ralphs involvement in community activities. He was president of the United Community Services of the Oranges and Maplewood, a trustee of the Hospital Center at Orange and the New Jersey U.S.O., and president of the Princeton Club of the Oranges and Newark.

On the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Hope Town, in the Bahamas, where the Osbornes once had homes, Ralph's business acumen and his love of people and sailing saw him elected to the presidency of the Edgartown Reading Room, the Board ofT rustees of the Edgartown Yacht Club, and the office of commodore of the Hopetown Yacht Club.

In recent years, when Ralph became legally blind and a back injury put him into a wheelchair, cultivating friends became his hobby. His warm, gentle personality, his delightful storytelling ability, and his infectious sense of humor made him a man people liked to be with.

Ralph died Feb. 27, 1993, at his retirement home in Poore Vedra Beach, Fla., leaving as survivors his widow and two children, Nancy Lea Angell and Ralph III, and four grandchildren. We will reflect fondly on his friendship.

The Class of 1935