David M. Reed Dave died on February 8, 2021, in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was 89. He was raised in Pittsburgh and came to Princeton from Shadyside Academy. At Princeton he was a member of the varsity soccer and wrestling teams, joined Cap & Gown and was in the cast of the Triangle Club in the years when the troupe made annual appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show. He majored in English and his thesis “Mark Twain and God” prefigured an interest in the ministry. Dave received a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1958 and became a Presbyterian minister, working with several congregations in Philadelphia. Driven by a desire to provide a more personal level of counselling, he earned a Doctorate in Psychology from Tulane University in 1965. He subsequently joined the Marriage Council of Philadelphia. He had a distinguished fifty-year career as a psychologist in the Philadelphia area, continuing to see patients into his early 80s. In addition, he was a radio talk show host on WCAU 1210 radio for several years beginning in the late 1970s, providing advice to callers anxious for access to a caring voice. Dave was married for 37 years to Carolyn Chapple before her death in 1993, and 23 years to Kathy Keogh before she too passed away in 2018. He is survived by his children David Jr. ’79, Douglas and Jennifer; stepchildren Sara and James; six grandchildren and a step-grandchild. John Atwater Bradley – Memorial Note Brad died on February 23, 2021. At Brooklyn Technical High School (NY) he was active in student government, glee club, and swimming. At Princeton he majored in Politics, sang in the Freshman Glee club and the Chapel Choir, rowed with the Freshman Crew, and joined Elm Club. After two years of flight training in the Air Force he undertook graduate work in philosophy, law, and theology at Yale and Union Theological Seminary. He then launched a worldwide entrepreneurial career: Founded the Planning Research Corporation; raised funds and consulted for non-profit institutions, business, industry, foundations, and governments; pooled management talent and investment capital; served as an officer and director of a handful of consulting firms, foundations, and corporations; and was appointed to an international arbitration tribunal at The Hague, Brad married Marilyn Monteith Bower in 1965. In the late 1960s he acquired tracts of forested land in the Hudson and Delaware Valleys to preserve, protect and manage them for profit on a “green and sustainable use” basis. He wrote “My interests outside the office include walking a la Thoreau, canoeing, swimming, snorkeling, flying, skiing, photography, and conchology. My problem is that I have too many interests, but in the end I will lack no entertainment for retirement.” Brad is survived by his daughter, Camilla Kerr Bradley and grandsons Jack Matheson Bradley and Boe Bardenheier. Marilyn and their twin sons David and Philip died in an automobile accident in 1978. Richard E. Leslie – Memorial Note Dick died on Dec. 13, 2020. He graduated with highest honors from Garden City High school, NY where he played lacrosse and soccer. At Princeton he majored in Electrical Engineering, an interest dating from his childhood. He joined Cloister Inn, played cornet in the Band and Orchestra, and was active in the Student Baptist Association. He and room-mate Fred Brewer worked at the Princeton Music Center, installing hi-fi systems and repairing radios. He also worked part-time at Sincerbeaux Engineering,. Dick married Nancy Dumont in June, 1953. Upon graduating cum laude, he pursued a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering while working at Sperry Gyroscope, and eventually enjoyed a career in the aerospace industry with Airborne Instruments, TRW, and the Aerospace Corporation, developing and deploying satellites and GPS systems. An avid sportsman, Dick was an accomplished rifleman from his youth, eventually participating in the 1960(61) Nationals in Lake Erie, Ohio. Dick hiked, sailed, bicycle- raced and ran marathons. He was accepted to run the Western 100 Endurance Run when his youngest daughter, Nancy, was stricken with terminal cancer in 1995. He and wife Nancy moved to Los Osos CA, to be closer to their other three daughters and to help to care for daughter Nancy's twins. He was a committed churchman and a true Princetonian, always studying, learning, experimenting or building something. Dick leaves his wife, three daughters, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Thomas F. Merrill – Memorial Note Tom passed away on Friday January 15, 2021. At Blair Academy he was active in football and swimming, glee club, choir, publications and volunteer programs and was Senior class president. At Princeton he majored in English in the American Civilization Program, writing his senior thesis on “Religious Aspects of Eugene O’Neill.” He served on the 1954 Freshman Student Council and sang in the Freshman Glee Club, The Nassoons and The Octet. He joined Tower Club. Classmates remember him as totally focused on his major in English literature, quiet yet charismatic, a talented musician and pianist with a fine voice. After service in the Air Force, he earned an MA in English at the University of Nebraska, where he met his wife Mary Jane, and then a PhD at the University of Wisconsin. Tom spent most of his career as an English professor at the University of Delaware. He enjoyed traveling the US and Europe with his family. He was also an accomplished artist, writer and lifelong swimmer. Survivors include his wife Mary Jane (Mong) Merrill; three children Kimberly, Elizabeth, and Patrick; three grandchildren, daughter-in-law Jenny Merrill and one great grandson. Tom was preceded in death by his two sisters and his son Charles E. Merrill. Thomas Macpherson Ritchie, Jr., - Memorial Note Tom died Friday, January 8, 2021. Son of Thomas Macpherson Ritchie ’25, Tom was a graduate of Kent School in Kent, CT., where he was active in football, baseball, and hockey. He majored in Politics, joined Ivy Club, played Varsity Hockey in years 1,2,3, and was active in Orange Key and the Campus Fund Drive. After college, he served for two years in the Army's Field Artillery Branch in Germany. Tom married Jean Webb Baldwin in 1961. At the time of our tenth reunion, he was an investment banker with Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in New York, and later worked in the financial securities industry for Auerbach, Kidder, Bear Sterns and finally McDonald & Company. Tom and Jean lived in Summit, NJ and Kenilworth, IL. and spent summers in Canaan, NH and winters in Vero Beach, FL. Tom enjoyed attending Princeton athletic events with classmates and playing golf at Sunset Ridge Country Club and Baltusrol Golf Club, where he was a member for fifty years. He is survived by his son Robert and daughter, Katherine. In 2014, Tom was predeceased in death by his wife of 53 years, Jeanie Baldwin and their son Tim. He is also survived by his five grandchildren and his partner in his last years, Diane. John Franklin Harper John F. Harper - Memorial Note John died on January 23, 2021. He attended Kent School in Kent, CT. He majored in Politics at Princeton, joined Charter Club, and was a member of the Bridge Club and WPRU and participated in ROTC. He married Katherine Johnson during his senior year. They had four children, John F., Jr., Jay Meredith, Carolyn Elizabeth and Katherine Clark before their divorce in 1963. After two years of service in the U.S. Army and three years of business ventures, he joined Princeton’s staff, working on the $53 Million capital campaign and then in the Development Office until resigning 1966 and launching his own fund-raising firm for independent schools and colleges, retiring in 1992. He met Margaret “Margee” Taube as a fund-raising client in 1978. She eventually joined his firm and they married in 1987. She brought four children to the marriage. John served as Class President from 1979-84, President and Treasurer of the Nassau Club, was extensively involved in Class affairs, was a member of the “Buster Lewis” all-male joke club, an enthusiastic model-railroader, played the ukulele, and supported numerous Princeton community organizations. John is survived by his wife, four children, his sister Priscilla, and seven grandchildren. John F. Harper John Franklin Harper, of Princeton, NJ, passed away on Saturday, January 23, 2021 at Penn Medicine – Princeton Medical Center, Plainsboro, NJ. He was born June 14, 1932 in Newburgh, NY and attended Kent School in Kent, CT. John married Katherine Johnson in 1953 when he was a senior at Princeton University. After graduating in 1954, having served in ROTC, the Army sent him to Ft. Sill, OK and then on to Ft. Lewis, WA. John and Katherine had four children, John F., Jr., Jay Meredith, Carolyn Elizabeth and Katherine Clark. John’s two post-Army jobs were at Philadelphia National Bank and Gulf Oil. In 1960, John was hired by Princeton University to help with its $53 million dollar campaign and following the completion of that effort stayed on to work in the Princeton Development Office. In 1966 he resigned to join two colleagues to form a fund-raising and public relations firm in NYC. In 1972, John formed his own fund-raising firm, John F. Harper and Co., which focused on some of the finest independent schools and colleges along the East coast. He served as ’54 Class Agent, 25th Princeton Reunion Class Chair and Vice- President and President of the Class of 1954. John played the ukulele and was a member of the “Buster Lewis” all male joke club in the 1980’s. John and “Margee” were married in 1987 and worked together in John’s firm until 1992.