Theodore S. Meth ’44

Ted died March 26, 2014, in Princeton.

He graduated from the Hun School. At Princeton he was active in Whig-Clio, Key and Seal, and the Westminster Society Jamesburg program; served as senior baseball manager; and won a letter in badminton. Ted majored in philosophy and graduated with honors. He roomed with Phil von Hemert.

He attended Yale Divinity School, earned a master’s degree from Union Theological Seminary in 1947, studied for a Ph.D. at Columbia University, and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1951. A church pastor from 1943 to 1952, he was an ordained member of the Presbytery of Newark and for many years its legal counsel.

Founder of a Newark law firm, Ted was standing trustee for Chapter XIII in the Bankruptcy Court (20 years), a law professor at Seton Hall (30 years), and published widely on commercial law. He served on the New Jersey Divorce Law Study Commission and was a Blair Academy trustee.

After his first wife, Mary, died in 1996, Ted moved to Princeton, served as class secretary and vice president, and published 10 books of poetry.

Surviving are his wife, B.F. Graham; son Karl; stepchildren Trevor and Dana; two grandchildren; and four step-grandchildren.