Theodore C. Rhoades ’48 *49

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Ted was born Dec. 31, 1926, and died Oct. 6, 2019.

At Princeton he majored in civil engineering and was in the Navy V-12 program.

Ted had a 40-year career with Turner Construction Co. and subsequently formed Ted Rhoades Consulting. He fully retired in 1989. He had been a consultant to New York City on capital project management and a panelist/arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.

He was an active Episcopalian churchman including vestryman, lay minister, and fundraiser for St. Peter’s Church in Weston, Mass.; the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass.; and the Massachusetts Episcopal Diocese.

In our 50th-reunion book Ted wrote, “Princeton stands as a beacon in academia and indeed the nation on how to face up to problems and deal with them in a thoughtful, fair, and humane way.”

Ted was predeceased by his wife, Anna Louise.

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