Theodore Foulk ’46

TED FOULK lived a wonderfully rich and inspiring life through June 4, 1990, when, at home, overlooking his beloved Vermont valley, among family and friends, he characteristically took charge and cast off after a valiant struggle against an extremely virulent cancer.

Ted was hardworking and caring, fiesty and fun, fiercely independent, a loveable skeptic, generously sharing, with values and a zest for life. After Princeton, he came to Philadelphia to manage and own Bloodgood Nurseries. "Retiring" in 1972 to Vermont, he continued with landscape design, crafted a magnificent hilltop postandbeam home with his own hands, and headed Quaker State Plantations. A man of many enthusiasms: fast cars and technical market analysis for

a time; and, persistently, wine, cookery, corgis, and labrador retrievers. He also was an accomplished fly fisherman, a leading collector of antique samplers, an early and avid environmentalist, and feminist. And he was, perhaps, Princeton's only contemporary dowser ("Of course there's water here, but I can't tell you how deep").

Ted leaves his widow, Joanne, who managed their charged relationship with subtle skill; son, Griff, and daughters Becky '73, Margy, and Abby '76; and eight grandchildren. A life worth living, an end worth emulating.

The Class of 1946