Theodore Holland Kelly ’35

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TED KELLY died at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore on Dec. 18, 1991. Ted was a longtime resident of Princeton before moving to Chestertown, Md., on the Eastern Shore, 12 years ago. He moved to Baltimore in Sept. 1991.

Ted came to Princeton from the Scarborough Country Day School. Yank Meader was Ted's roommate senior year. He received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering and went to work for Union Carbide Corp. For 39 years he held many different positions with this corporation, including manager of engineering and construction for the plastics division, comptroller of the chemical division, and new business development manager for the East Asia region, headquartered in Tokyo.

Ted's principal hobby was boating. He cruised all over the Eastern Seaboard and the Caribbean, and wrote articles for YACHTING and other magazines. His children relate that the only pictures that he carried in his wallet were two of his wife and one of his boat. His alumni activities included working on a number of off-year reunions and helping to organize the Class winter minireunions in Florida, when he was living in Vero Beach. After moving to Maryland, he served as secretarytreasurer of the Princeton Alumni Association of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Ted is survived by his wife, the former Guy Forrester, whom he married in 1943; three daughters, Lucia, Eliza and Andrea; and sons David and Christopher. To each of them the Class extends its sympathy.

The Class of 1935

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