Theodore R.F. Wright ’49

Ted died Oct. 15, 2014, in Charlottesville, Va., his home for the past 49 years.

The son of missionary parents, Ted was born in India and came to Princeton from Mount Hermon School. He majored in biology, played soccer and lacrosse, and was a member of Prospect.

After graduation, he spent time in the Army and then earned a master’s degree at Wesleyan and a Ph.D. at Yale, both in biology. His specialty was drosophila genetics, the study of fruit flies. Ted taught biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins until 1965, then accepted a tenured position at the University of Virginia, a post he held for the next 30 years.

Ted and his wife, Eileen, had a second home in Jefferson, Maine, and his passion was bass fishing on Lake Damariscotta. There is a charming picture of him in our 50th-reunion book, busily cleaning fish for their supper. We trust it was a bass, and a tasty one at that.

Eileen died in 2002. Ted’s survivors are his sister, Lydia W. Beaumont, and 10 nieces. The class sends sympathy to them all.