Raymond Elmore Burnes ’33

Ray died July 25, 2002, of pneumonia. He was 91.

Ray was a teacher par excellence. After his graduation from Princeton, he received a master's degree from Columbia Teachers' College. Before WWII he served as teacher and headmaster of the Shanghai American School in China. After wartime service he became teacher and headmaster of the New Canaan Country School in Connecticut, from which he retired in 1975. In 1978, Ray moved to DC, where he was active as an adviser to the Neighborhood Commission of Adams Morgan, where he lived. He was a member of the St. Stephen and the Incarnation and St. Margaret's Episcopal churches. He was involved in the Honduran Exchange Program. He moved to Silver Spring, Md., in the late '90s.

Richard, Ray's son, wrote that on the day before he died, Ray and his Princeton son, Donald '63, were singing Princeton fight songs. Ray's wife, Elizabeth, died in 1992. He is survived by his sons, Donald and Richard, and two grandsons. We will miss him and his Princeton loyalty.

The Class of 1933