Stuart L. Harris ’62

Stu died of pancreatic cancer Oct. 3, 2025, in Tirana, Albania, his home for less than a year.

Attending Nether Providence High School in Rose Valley, Pa., he was schoolbook editor and participated in swimming and football. At Princeton, he majored in electrical engineering, ate at Dial Lodge, lettered in lightweight crew, and was managing editor of the Bric-a-Brac.

Stu earned a master’s in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963 and worked for Westinghouse Electric for four years before earning an MBA at Stanford. For the next 30 years he worked in technology marketing in Silicon Valley for such firms as Advanced Micro Devices and Fairchild Semiconductor.

As he explains in our 50th-reunion yearbook, he turned away from this life in 2002, becoming an itinerant scholar-cryptographer, traveling widely in Europe and the UK, deciphering inscriptions on tombstones, monuments, statues, and other artifacts. In a series of self-published Amazon books, he argues for the existence of “Old European,” a long extinct language whose markings, unrecognized until now, disclose “a great corpus of written history.”

Stuart is survived by his wife, Sandra; sons Mark and Kenny; granddaughter Olivia; and siblings Shep, Bruce, Polly, and Barbara.