Edward Clarke Ingraham Jr. ’43


Edward Clarke Ingraham Jr. ’43 died November 17, 2011. Ed graduated from Dolgeville (New York) High School. At Dartmouth he majored in English and was a member of Alpha Theta Chi. After graduation Ed spent three years as an Army Air Force meteorologist and in 1945, after his release from the service, worked for a year for a brokerage house on Wall Street. In 1947 he married Susan Hartman, and shortly thereafter was commissioned in the State Department Foreign Service, having decided that Wall Street was not for him. His early assignments took him to Bolivia, Hong Kong, Perth, Australia, and Madras, India. By 1954 he was hooked on the Far East and applied to Cornell for a year of specialization in that area and study of the Indonesian language. From 1958 to 1960 Ed was the political officer in Djakarta, spending four months of that time in Medan, Sumatra. Returning to Washington in 1961, he spent a year in charge of Australian affairs and then three years in charge of Indonesian affairs. In 1965 Ed attended the National War College. After graduation he was assigned to the embassy in Rangoon, Burma, and later to embassies in Islamabad and Singapore. After “retirement” in 1980 Ed worked part-time for the next 10 years, for the State Department as a freedom-of-information consultant. When not in their Bethesda, Maryland, home, Susan and Ed spent time in their cottage in the Blue Ridge Mountains and continued to roam the world. He also enjoyed tennis and sailing. He is survived by Susan, children John, James and Elizabeth and five grandchildren.