Ralph W. Greenlaw Jr. *52

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Ralph Greenlaw, a retired professor of history at North Carolina State University, died July 19, 2009. He was 91.

Greenlaw graduated from Amherst in 1938, after which he spent a year at Harvard Business School. He then worked in the export-management business from 1939 to 1942, when he entered the Army as an officer. He served until 1945.

Greenlaw enrolled at Princeton in 1945, received a master’s in 1947, and completed his Ph.D. in history in 1952. He then taught history at North Carolina State until he retired in 1972. Greenlaw once wrote of his Princeton experience: “I found it all delightful and felt at last I had found my niche.”

Greenlaw is survived by his daughter, Claire Greenlaw Goldstein.

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