T. Edmund Beck elected FMTC President (1951-1953)

T Edmund Beck (1903-1996) was class of 1926 at Princeton and joined Dillon Read & Co. upon graduation.

Four years later he founded the investment counseling firm of Beck, Mack & Oliver which he headed until his son John succeeded him in 1953.

He married into the Childress dynasty at FMTC and two of the three children that he and Madeline (APTA Hall of Fame inductee in 1965) had were very fine tennis and platform tennis players with Susan Beck Walsh being inducted into the APTA Hall of Fame in 1976

Beck partnered with his wife for five Mixed championships in platform tennis – 1943-1946, 1948 and 1950. They also won the APTA Mixed in 1939.