Deceased March 23, 2023

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In memory

At the age of 96, Reed passed away this year. Reed was one of our veterans, U.S. Navy 1944–46, where he was an aviation radioman. A longtime educator, he taught primarily in Africa and at Bridgewater University in Massachusetts.

He and his wife had five children when he was a teaching missionary in Liberia from 1950 to 1958. After a stint as a Massachusetts high school teacher, he served in the department of education in Kenya from 1965 to 1968.

Geography and anthropology were his subjects as a professor at Bridgewater. 

Conservation and the environment were causes he pursued in various community programs.

Reed was a member of Beta Theta Pi. He was president of the Masquers and was a participant in the Outing Club.

A second wife, Virginia, survives him, as do five children: Karen Pettengill, Michael Stewart, Julie Bagchi, Kimberly D’Angelo and Claire Fitzgerald. Two other children died. 

John Priesing ’50