I want to talk about Ted Bullard, who was originally in the class of ’46, but graduated in ’50. Ted had a very interesting attitude and outlook. Ted was a diabetic. When he graduated from high school in 1942 the war was on and the easiest thing in the world for Ted to have done at that point would have been to come to Harvard because so many of the candidates for the freshman class in the fall of ’42 were in the military service. But, Ted decided that he wanted to stay with his class, which was really going to start about four years later. So Ted went into industry. He worked as a steel puddler, of all things, in Pittsburgh. He did that for four years. His diabetic condition kept him out of the military. He came into Harvard for the first time in the fall of ’46. I first encountered him in 1949, I think, when he, and I, and David Edgar were all working at the same summer camp. Ted was a very handsome man, a great ladies’ man, a fine tenor. He is featured in Where or When on the original 1949 Krok album, and he ultimately became the tennis captain. I can remember he said the only time I ever got beat 0-0 was by Vic Seixas, and for those of you who remember, Vic Seixas was a tennis champion in the United States prior to the time that they really had an international circuit. Ted later in life, I lost track of him, but I believe that he went back into the steel industry, and unhappily died at a fairly young age in the early 80s.

-From Jack Kiggen at the 60th Anniversary Memorial Service

Frederic K. Bullard Jr., class of 1946, was known as a solid singer and elder statesman of the group.  We all miss him.

–Gerald Lauderdale

FREDERIC KEIL BULLARD, JR., died July 13, 1965, at Sewick-ley, Pennsylvania. The son of Frederic Keil Bullard, ’20, and Adelaide (Brainard) Bullard, he was born December 1, 1923, in Peking, China. He prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Harvard received an A.B. in 1950, as of our Class. While at college he played Eliot House baseball and basketball and was a member of the tennis squad and tennis team. He was also a member of the Glee Club, Hasty Pudding-Institute of 1770 and the D.U. Club. He had been associated with the National Electric Products Corporation, a division of H.K. Porter Company of Pittsburgh, had worked in their sales offices in San Francisco, Torrance and Los Angeles, California, and in 1955 was made Florida district manager. He retired in 1961 and died after a prolonged illness. He was survived by his wife, the former Elaine Folden, whom he married in 1955, and a stepson, Richard.