Theodore V. Buttrey Jr. ’50 *53

Ted died Jan. 9, 2018, in Cambridge, England, where he had lived for many years.

Born in Havre, Mont., to Ruth and Ted Sr., who was in the Class of 1926, Ted came to Princeton at the age of 16 from Phillips Exeter, where he ran track. At Princeton, he won the Stinnecke Prize for Classics after his freshman year, entitling him to three years tuition and a $500 stipend per year until graduation. He graduated with high honors and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Upon graduation, Ted stayed at Princeton to earn a Ph.D. and a Fulbright scholarship. Following the Fulbright, he joined the classics faculty at Yale, where he was also curator of the Yale Numismatic Collection. He then moved to the University of Michigan, where he served as chairman of its classics department, and finally overseas to Cambridge University.

An academic and scholar, he wrote books and articles on Greek linguistics and on writers such as Aristophanes and Plato. He established his own publishing house, but was best known in the world of numismatics for his knowledge of ancient Greek and Roman coinage.

Ted was followed to Princeton by his brother Jerry ’58 and two of his four children, Charlie ’81 and Sam ’83.