Walter “Bud” Becker ’65

Walter “Bud” Becker ’65, of Flemington, N.J.; Feb. 1, of metastatic melanoma. After graduating from Brown, where he played baseball and basketball, he enlisted in the U.S. Marines and became a Morse code instructor. After his military service he entered a selective executive training program at IBM. He later joined Informatics General Corporation, a software services firm, where he had a successful career that led to him starting his own software consulting company, Global Computer Associates, from which he retired in 2010. He took courses at Princeton during his retirement and enjoyed sailing on Long Island Sound and Chesapeake Bay. He is survived by his wife, Lynn; two sisters; a brother-in-law; three aunts; a niece; and three nephews.