Edward Crane Kirkpatrick ’35

ED KIRKPATRICK died Dec. 29, 1990, after a courageous battle against circulatory problems over nine years. He prepared at Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Del. At Princeton he majored in chemistry and continued in that discipline for a year at the Graduate College. He then transferred to the Univ. of Ill., from which he received his doctorate in organic chemistry in 1938.

He joined the Du Pont Co. as a research chemist in 1937 and remained with Du Pont until his retirement in 1975. In 1959, he was assigned to Du Pont's international dept. as director of development, followed three years later by his transfer to Geneva, Switzerland, as assistant director of the European division. There he became vice chairman of Du Pont's European division, and, In 1965, he returned to Wilmington as assistant to the chairman, a position he held until retirement in 1975.

Ed was a former president of the P.A.A. of Delaware and a regional chairman for A.G. Princetonians in his family included his father, Littleton Kirkpatrick '06; uncles Edward M. Crane '18 and jasper E. Crane '01; and his cousin, John H. Miller 11 '39. He is survived by his widow, Mary Scott, to whom he had been married just three weeks short of 50 years, and by three sons, E. Scott 163, David T., and John T. '71, and a daughter, Polly; his twin brother Littleton Jr., one grandson, and a cousin, Edward M. Crane Jr. '45, to all of whom the Class extends its sincere sympathy.

Ed will be remembered as a classmate with a supremely active mind, encompassing many fields of interest, and for his warmth and abiding friendship.

The Class of 1935