S. Theodore Blumenfeld ’51

Ted was born Feb. 4, 1929, in Philadelphia, Pa., to Max and Sara Markowitz Blumenfeld.

At Central High School he was public league and city broad-jump champion in 1945 and 1946. He was in the top 20 all-time jumps for Princeton at the 1951 Millrose Games and Penn Relays. Ted was a philosophy major, a member of Campus Club, and winner of the Dickinson Prize for epistemology for his thesis on the logic or theory of knowledge.

He served in Army counterintelligence for two years and earned a law degree from Temple in 1957. Ted had a 50-year legal career in the insurance industry and the real-estate secured finance business, and later was of counsel at Berger & Montague in Philadelphia.

He died July 11, 2015, in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., at the age of 86.

Ted is survived by his wife, Sharon; sons Jeffrey ’76, Richard, David, and Andrew; daughter Mara Nergaard; their families; and by his former wife, Sondre Sukin, of Deerfield Beach, Fla.

Jeff, Rich, and David are all lawyers, Andrew is with Performance Based Ergonomics in Oakland, Calif., and Mara is a well-known theatrical costume designer in Chicago.