Stephen D. Zuckerman ’63

Steve died July 6, 2017, in southern California, where he lived nearly all his life.

After a year at the University of Southern California, Steve came to Princeton and majored in economics, participated in Orange Key and Whig-Clio, and ate at Terrace. He earned an MBA from Stanford and a law degree from USC. In 1973 he became president of Zuckerman Building, which has built thousands of California homes since the early 1940s. He was also executive manager of Magna Mill Products and a director of the National Coalition of Marine Conservation and Carlthorp School.

On land he was a builder and developer, at sea he was a big-game angler. Steve set more than 25 world records for fishing with light tackle, later becoming an ardent supporter of catch-and-release and eco-conscious ocean-preservation movements. When the film Islands in the Stream showed actor George C. Scott fighting a giant marlin, producers used footage of one of Steve’s fights.

Steve dearly loved his children, Amanda and Will, and avidly surfed, swam, wrote, and created fishing lures. Most importantly, he had a big heart. The class extends condolences to his wife, Dorie; his children; grandchildren Eli and Matteo; and siblings Ken ’67, Bruce ’69, Robert ’76, and Anna ’80. Steve’s father, Edward h’63, helped create the Princeton Parents Committee.