[1] Scudder graduated from the Loomis Chaffee School[3] before attaining a bachelor's degree in Economics with honors from Princeton University in 1935.
He enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II and served within Operation Annie, an Allied German-language counter-propaganda radio station.
[2] Scudder returned to New Jersey from Europe in 1946[2] and became reporter at the Boston Herald, followed by a journalist position for the Newark Evening News, which his grandfather had founded in 1883.
[1] Scudder died at his home in the Navesink section of Middletown, New Jersey, on July 11, 2012, at the age of 99.
[2] Scudder was survived by one son, three daughters, eight grandchildren, several grand-nieces and nephews, and a few cousins and close extended family members.
[1] Another ancestor, Colonel Nathaniel Scudder, was one of two delegates from New Jersey who signed the Articles of Confederation.
[2] Eight generations of Scudders have graduated from Princeton University, starting with a member of the school's first class.