In Memoriam: Edgar Lloyd Lustig

	Edgar Lloyd "Ned" Lustig

Edgar Lloyd "Ned" Lustig, founding member of the American Society of Theatre Consultants (ASTC), passed away on February 12, in Lincoln, Nebraska, Lighting&Sound America has learned. Lustig's 50-year career will be remembered for his contributions to theatre and lighting equipment technology, and consulting work at venues such as the Lindbergh High School Theatre and Ferrara Theatre. In 2011, he was honored as an ASTC Fellow.

Lustig was born in Omaha in 1927 to Margaret Davidson and Nathan Cook Rettinger. He served in the OSS during World War II. While attending UCLA, he started his technical theatre career as a stagehand in Los Angeles. He left the city for a lighting design engineer's position in New York. He moved his young family to St. Louis, where he lived for nearly 60 years. He and his wife moved to Lincoln last year to be near their daughter and her family. He was an avid commercial pilot, loved playing his 1927 Robert Morton theatre organ, and had a passion for opera.

Lustig is survived by wife Edith Perkins, sister Norma Masterson, daughters Susan Lustig and Carol Wirth, and his grandchildren and great grandson.