Stephen Rogers Steinhauser ’42

Stephen Rogers Steinhauser was born in Newburgh, N.Y., in 1921 and died Aug. 11, 2007, in Sarasota, Fla., of complications of heart disease.

Steve came to Princeton from George Washington High School in New York City. He was a member of Gateway Club and majored in geological engineering.

During World War II, Steve served on destroyers in the South Pacific. At the end of the war he was separated as a lieutenant. For many years he was a mining engineer for the United Nations, with assignments in Burma, Chile, Argentina, El Salvador, and Colombia — sometimes in locations so remote that the only access was by elephant.

After his retirement, Steve was able to concentrate on studying butterflies, a field in which he was a recognized expert. After his personal collection of 35,000 specimens (including more than 40 previously undocumented species) was acquired by the Allyn Museum of Entomology in Sarasota, he stayed at the museum as a research associate, writing more than 20 scientific papers on Lepidoptera.

To his wife, Josie; his daughter, Nancy E. Murray; his son, Peter; stepchildren Mary Lloyd and Larry Lloyd; two grandchildren; and four step-grandchildren, the class sends its sympathy.