Raymond L. Acosta ’48

Ray was born May 21, 1925, in New York City and died Dec. 23, 2014, in Chapin, S.C.

During his Navy service (1943-46), he was in the 1944 D-Day invasion. After Princeton, he graduated from Rutgers Law School in 1951. He was admitted to practice in New Jersey and Puerto Rico and later to the U.S. Supreme Court. After practicing law in Hackensack, N.J., in 1954 he became an FBI special agent, first in San Diego and then elsewhere stateside.

In 1958 he was appointed an assistant district attorney for Puerto Rico. After re-entering private legal practice, notably with the firm Igaravidez & Acosta (1962-67), he became, in succession, from 1968 to 1980, an executive of three Puerto Rican banks. President Lyndon Johnson named Ray an alternate delegate to the U.S. Commission on the Status of Puerto Rico. President Jimmy Carter appointed him U.S. district attorney for Puerto Rico. Then, as a U.S. district judge, he managed the complex discovery and trial proceedings following the 1986 Dupont Plaza Hotel disaster.

Our 50th-reunion book reported that Ray and his wife, Nancy (Hatcher), had three children, Regina, Gregory, and Ann Marie.