Walter W. Craigie ’52

Walter died March 3, 2016. He graduated from the Woodberry Forest School, which was founded by his great-grandfather. At Princeton he majored in economics and joined Cottage, Orange Key, and the Woodberry Forest Club. Walter served on the business board of The Daily Princetonian and Canterbury Fellowship. He roomed with George Buxton, Mac Evans, and Joe Fiveash.

He served in the Marines and, in 1956, graduated from Harvard Business School, where he met his wife, Beese. Walter’s career in finance benefited a number of institutions with which he became affiliated, including Woodberry Forest (the board chairman for years), Collegiate School (where Beese taught), the Montpelier Foundation, Medical College of Virginia Foundation, St. John’s Church, the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Randolph-Macon College (where he earned a law degree in 2004), and the Commonwealth of Virginia, where his work as state treasurer and long-term adviser to governors vastly assisted pension funds and public works at a number of sites.

Walter is survived by Beese; daughters Anne and Frances; classmates; and others to whom he meant a great deal.