Peter Budryk

Peter Budryk
Peter Budryk died at 87 on Cape Cod, surrounded by family.
Peter was an avid fisherman, a devoted husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather and a ceaseless advocate for the disadvantaged and the marginalized. Through his work with the Upward Bound program, which identifies low-income students with potential and provides educational resources and tutoring, Peter helped give countless students a chance to attend college. He was also the mind behind the program's Great Hollow Wilderness School, a two-week outdoor challenge course. Peter loved fishing, publishing multiple books on the subject and making sure his children and grandchildren learned too, whether they liked it or not. All eight of them have memories that will last forever of standing on a bank or shore somewhere on the Cape, casting and reeling in with his guidance or just sharing a moment of quiet together. His fishing took him to waters from Grenada to Alaska to a solo trip to an uninhabited Bahamian island. He loved his hometown of Cambridge and his second home of Cape Cod, but more than anything or anyone he loved Elinor, his wife of 64 years, who preceded him in death two years ago. If there is anything resembling a Heaven they were reunited instantaneously, and also Boston College beats Notre Dame every day.
He is survived by his children Robin, Doug and Jennifer; his grandchildren, Max, Riley, Chandler, Nathan and Zachary; his brother Francis; and his great-granddaughters Willow and Lilly.