Torrance Raymond ’60

Terry died Dec. 19, 2017, after a short illness.

He grew up in Chappaqua, N.Y., and went to Horace Greeley High School, where he was captain of the football team and student council president. At Princeton he played freshman and sophomore baseball, joined Campus Club, majored in electrical engineering, and became active in the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.

Terry decided at an early date on a career in computer science. He joined IBM upon graduation as a project engineer. While rising there, he earned a master’s of science degree in operations research at Syracuse University in 1969, having wed Caroline Freedland (Vassar ’64) in 1966.

Terry enjoyed skiing, golf, and fishing and in time developed what he called “Caribbean Fever,” pursuing annual breaks at least to Florida and often farther into that sea. Always an avid stamp collector, he also became a keen and expert seashell collector and in time a specialist and a published authority on fossil shells. His extensive collection of the latter now resides at the Florida Museum of Natural History and the University of Florida.

Retiring from IBM in 1992, Terry moved fully south, to Venice, Fla., in 2000. He is survived by his daughter, Megan, to whom we send our sympathies.