Theodore H. Conderman ’37

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JOVIAL, ACTIVE Princetonian and reuner, insurance man Ted Conderman died Jan. 14, 1991, of a stroke.

Ted came to us from St. George's, where he was on the soccer and wrestling teams. At Princeton he majored in psychology, was on the freshman and then varsity lightweight crew squads and the undefeated freshman soccer team, and was a member of Charter.

After three months hunting and fishing (dryfly fishing remained a hobby) in the Yukon after graduation, he want into insurance with Marsh & McLennan, first in N.Y. and then in Pittsburgh, before enlisting in the Marines in 1942, only to be discharged for medical reasons. So it was back to Marsh & McLennan until Jan. 1950, when he joined Fred S. James & Co. for ten years before moving to Johnson & Higgins as senior V.P., marine insurance specialist (one of four classmates with the firm), all in Pittsburgh. He retired in June 1976 and moved to Ranch Santa Fe, Calif.

Our sympathies go out to his widow Penelope Bridge, his four children by a previous marriage to Margaretta Frew, and his eight grandchildren.

"I would like to say what a great bunch of classmates we had and how much they did to make life after graduation so really pleasant."

The Class of l937

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