Rutger Rosenborg ’46

Rut Rosenborg died June 9, 2007, at age 83.

He was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and moved to Princeton in 1940 when the League of Nations moved his father, a deputy director, to the Institute for Advanced Study.

After graduation from Princeton High School, Rut majored in modern languages at Princeton, writing his senior thesis in French. During World War II he served in the Army's famed 10th Mountain Division, winning a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. He joined American Express in 1949 and retired as a vice president in 1976, after which he moved to a 50-acre horse farm in Stockton, N.J., with secondary homes in Switzerland and France.

Rut was predeceased by his wife of 50 years, Suzanne Zinser Rosenborg, who had owned horses most of her life, and was one of a very few female trainers of thoroughbred horses. He is survived by five children, Richard, Eric, Jennifer Fricke, Victoria Rosenborg-Street, and Karina Rosenborg-Viornery; 10 grandchildren; and a brother, Thomas. He was predeceased by another brother, Staffan '45. To them all, the class extends its deepest sympathy.