He graduated from Tenafly (N.J.) High School in 1944, where he captained the football and track teams. He then enlisted in the Navy, serving until 1946. At Princeton he belonged to Tiger Inn and earned a psychology degree with honors.
Ron was an outstanding runner. He lettered in track and cross country all four years and was track team captain his senior year. He was an All-American miler, 1948 Heps mile champion, and he placed third in the 1949 National Collegiate Championship mile. With Cornell he competed against the Oxford-Cambridge team in 1949 and 1950. He often joked that he “beat Roger Bannister for three out of four laps” in their mile race.
While working full time in investment banking, he attended NYU Law School and was admitted to the New York bar in 1962. As senior vice president for Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, he annually produced a five-year computer analysis of financial records for the 13,000 U.S. banking institutions. He retired in 1985, founding USA BancData and continuing as a consultant.
Ron is survived by his wife of 40 years, Joan; three children from his first marriage, Tracy, Cynde, and Randy; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. His brother, Warren ’51, predeceased him.