Ted Hunting

There will be a gathering of friends and family on Sunday,May 23, 2010 to remember Ted Hunting, a Fleet 50 member while living in DC. It will be held at his cousin's house in Arlington,VA   at 501 N.Lincoln between Pershing and Wilson.

Edgar (Ted) Dyer Hunting died of lymphoma March 4, 2010 at the Hospice Care Center of Kitsap County, Bremerton WA.  He was born in Pasadena July 10, 1939 to Edgar and Alice Leeds Hunting. 

He graduated from Polytechnic School, Pasadena CA; Midland School, Los Olivos CA; and Williams College.  He received a Master of Engineering at Stanford and MBA from UCLA. 

He served in the Peace Corp from 1964 to 1966, initially in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and then in Iran. He subsequently worked for the Louis Berger Group constructing airfields in Thailand and then joined the World Bank as a young professional in the early 1970’s. He stayed on with the Bank for well over a decade where he focused on irrigation and other infrastructure projects in Bangladesh and other parts of South Asia and then in Eastern Europe before retiring in 1988.   

He lived in Washington DC from 1970 to 2001 where he had many close friends and enjoyed sailing and running as a member of the local Hash House Harriers. Despite medical problems after retirement, he continued to do volunteer work and travel, including spending time on development projects in Africa, India, Cambodia and back in Bangladesh. He participated in a study of the Impacts of Maize Research in Africa for the United States Agency for International Development in the early ‘90s. and worked with a local Non Governmental Organization in Rajasthan during the same period, assisting with their agricultural programs. 

In recent years, he lived in Bainbridge Island WA. He enjoyed the outdoors and backpacking trips in the Cascades and Rocky Mountains. 

He is survived by siblings Nancy Saunders (James) of Mill Valley CA, John Hunting of Santa Barbara CA and David Hunting of Bainbridge Island WA; also nieces Amy Simpson, Alice Hunting; nephews John Saunders and James Hunting; and several cousins;  also, classmates and longtime friends Kemp Crawford, Elon Gilbert and Mike Connell. 

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