William P. Albrecht ’56

Bill died in Iowa City Oct. 30, 2024. Coming to Princeton from Albuquerque, N.M., Bill joined Key and Seal, worked on The Daily Princetonian, and majored in philosophy. He served in the Navy as an engineering officer on a destroyer. He then earned a Ph.D. in economics from Yale in 1965.

Bill pursued an illustrious career at the University of Iowa as a professor of international business and associate dean. He was particularly proud of his service in Washington, D.C., on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 1988 to 1993, where he developed cooperative arrangements with financial regulators around the world. For our 50th-reunion yearbook, Bill shared how much he enjoyed his exciting time in D.C. But recognizing that “it distorts one’s view of the world,” he returned to the professorial life at Iowa, including writing two economics textbooks.

Bill married Fran Jaecques in 1976, and together they enjoyed 48 years playing tennis, raising a shared family, and traveling around the world. Fran survives him, along children with William “Ken” Albrecht, Alision Albrecht, Amy Stanbro, Jonathan Albrecht, Jeffrey Albrecht, Jay Bullard, and Jill Frantz; 10 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.