Whitman Ridgway ’39

A third-generation Princetonian, Whit died Feb. 19. 1995, at his home in Schenectady, N.Y. There he had been associated with G.E., ever since receiving his M.S. in electrical engineering from Princeton in 1940. For a time after his war service as a naval officer, G.E. assigned him to San Francisco. But in 1960, he returned to Schenectady as marketing manager for G.E.'s gas-turbine department. In 1971, he became a G.E. v.p. Under his leadership, gas turbines became a major source of profits for G.E, He retired in l976, only to he called to serve as chief of the Bureau of Power, Federal Power Commission, in Washington, D.C. All his life, he was active in professional associations and a leader in community work of all kinds. Whit cherished his Princeton heritage, and looked forward to his annual midwinter reunion with six '39ers at Mill Reef Club on Antigua.

Whit and Marjorie Hunt married in 1955. He had two children from a previous marriage, Whitman Jr. and Priscilla, and two stepdaughters, Marjorie Manning and Kathryn Gorman. We join with them in gratitude for the good life he shared with us all.