Ramsay W. Vehslage ’59

Ramsay died suddenly but peacefully April 17, 2015. He was living in Skillman, N.J.

Born in New York City and raised in Haverford, Pa., Ramsay prepped at the Haverford School. At Princeton he dined at Colonial Club and roomed with a substantial portion of the membership, including Bob Gongaware, Ted Robbins, Dick Furman, Fred Mosher, and Tony Barr, plus “outsiders” George Beall and Jim Jennings. He majored in English and excelled at squash, soaring to the No. 1 spot on the varsity team in his sophomore year, serving as captain his senior year, and holding national ranking in his teens and 20s.

After Princeton — and after a brief stint as a regional loan officer for Citibank — Ramsay took over the reins of the Bonney-Vehslage Tool Co., a ticket-punch manufacturing company founded by his grandfather in 1906, with a dominant position in a niche sector of our economy.

But neither squash nor a business yclept his surname, nor his affinity for the trout stream, nor his role on the graduate board of Colonial Club, diverted him from that which he always described as the most fulfilling elements in his life — his wife, Ann; his children, Ramsay Jr. and Mary Murray Isgrig; and his grandchildren, Wyatt, Hazel, and Milly.