Fred Melroy

Trustee, Treasurer

Born and raised in Union County New Jersey, Fred was an active youth member of the First Presbyterian Church and Westminster Fellowship. At age fourteen he started working at a local golf club, which paid his tuition at Rider University, from which he graduated in 1970 with a degree in Finance. Recruited out of college by Dow Jones, he soon entered military service and spent a year in Vietnam. After returning, he changed his career path to hospital financial administration, where he spent the next forty years working for various hospitals, most recently NYU Medical Center, retiring in April 2015. In 1990, he began to attend Medford Monthly Meeting, becoming a member 15 years later. He is currently a very active volunteer with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Medford Monthly Meeting, Friends Journal, and YMCA Camp Ockanickon.