Sidney L. Eaton Jr. ’54

Sid died Sept. 16, 2025.

At Noble and Greenough School, his activities included baseball, dramatics, and glee club.

At Princeton, he majored in English and the Special Program in the Humanities, joined Tower club, where he served as secretary, participated in the Advisee Project, and was head manager of varsity baseball.

He enjoyed a long career as an English teacher in private middle and high schools, first at the Cate School near Santa Barbara, Calif., then at Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma, Wash., where he met and married Margaret “Meg” Patten from Portland, Ore., in 1964. In 1971, he started at Catlin Gabel School in Portland, from which he retired in 2001. Throughout these years, he took on additional administrative, coaching, and admissions roles. He served as chief reader of the College Board’s English composition test for four years.

In retirement, Sid enjoyed stateside travel, tutoring, serving as a gofer in political campaigns, and as a listener in a second-grade class. In his closing years, he moved to Bend, Ore., to be near his sons Stuart and Bruce. He died with Bruce at his side while visiting the treasured scenes of his childhood in Maine.

Sid is survived by sons Stuart and Bruce and grandsons Miles, Nate, and Flynn. He was predeceased by his wife, Meg, in 2022.