Peter von Stein ’56

Peter von Stein ’56, of Wolfeboro, N.H.; May 7. After graduating from Brown, he was a reporter for the Associated Press in Indianapolis. He went on to work as Assistant Secretary of State of Indiana. Later in his career he worked in leadership roles in the clinical diagnostics field, first with Boehringer Mannheim in Indianapolis, then with Syva Pharmaceuticals in Palo Alto, Calif., until 1984. He retired in 2001 as head of the U.S. Diagnostics Division of Elan Pharmaceuticals. In retirement he maintained a long-term consulting assignment focused on building a national laboratory system in Ghana, West Africa. He served for 20 years on the board of YMCA Camp Belknap and was instrumental in brokering Belknap’s land acquisition and placing it in conservation for perpetuity. While at Brown, he served as the executive editor of the Brown Daily Herald and as president of Delta Upsilon. He is survived by his wife, Jeri; two daughters, including Stephanie von Stein ’88; son Eric ’00; and four grandchildren, including granddaughter Ingrid Hirt ’21.