Edge entered Princeton from Loomis and joined Terrace Club. He played on Henry Mahnken’s undefeated 150-pound football team, but since he was the pulling guard behind all-Ivy captain Bill Hedberg ’43, Edge noted that he spent most of the time picking up splinters on the bench.
He left Princeton in 1945 and was sent to the Philippines with the 716th Tank Battalion. He was dragooned into service as a war-crimes investigation officer for the trials of Japanese Generals Yamashita and Homma. While awaiting transportation to the U.S., he was caught in a crossfire involving the Philippine Constabulary and the Japanese prisoners, so his return was delayed by hospital convalescence for six months.
He arrived back in Princeton in the fall of 1946 and earned a degree from the Woodrow Wilson School in 1948. He attended Yale Law School, graduating in 1951. He spent brief periods with New York law firms Donovan, Leisure and Davis Polk. He entered a lifetime professional career, first as a partner of Cummings & Lockwood in Stamford, and then as a U.S. district judge in Bridgeport, where he served as a judge until his death. For two decades he visited Arizona and New Mexico for an annual stint as a visiting judge. Edge served on many boards, including the Leadership Development Council, which sponsored the yearly Medina Seminar at Princeton, the Hilla von Rebay Foundation, and Pine Island Camp in Belgrade, Maine.
In 1951, Edge married Marjorie, who predeceased him after 40 years of marriage. He later married Mary, who died in 2013. He is survived by his daughter, Andrea ’77; his son, John; granddaughters Katherine and Sarah Seaton; and his companion Edythe Woodruff. The class expresses its sympathy to the family.