Theodore Ridgway Jaeckel ’38

Ted died May 22, 2002, at the Princeton Medical Center. He was born in Stettin, Germany, in 1915, the son of Foreign Service officer Theodore Jaeckel and Violet Ridgway. He came to Princeton from St. George's School. At Princeton he majored in English and ate at Cloister Inn.

Following graduation he worked in publishing before joining the Office of Strategic Services during WWII. Following the war he joined the Foreign Service, serving in Paris, Athens, New Delhi, Mexico City, Hong Kong, and Caracas. After he retired in 1971, he worked for the Princeton University Press in Princeton, and Field Enterprises in Chicago, then resided in Hunter, N.Y., and Sarasota, Fla., for several years before moving to Cranbury, N.J., in 1998.

Ted was predeceased by his beloved wife of 60 years, Yolanda, in 2000, and is survived by two brothers, John '42 and Hugo, sons Theodore Jr. and Christopher '64, daughter Pamela Oppen, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

The Class of 1938