Prescott Behn, 83, of Carlisle, MA, passed away peacefully of heart failure at his home on September 21. Pres and his wife Gertrud had just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on September 10, with visiting family and relatives from near and far. Pres was born on May 4, 1928, in Los Angeles to Harry Behn, a Hollywood screenwriter at the time, and Alice (Lawrence) Behn. They later moved to Tucson, Arizona, where his father taught college English and radio show production. After high school graduation in 1947, Pres enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served on Guam. Pres received his bachelors' degree in architecture from Harvard University in 1953 (although was class of '52), where he was also active in the Harvard Lampoon. After graduation he and a friend opened an art gallery in Cambridge, which they ran for two years. Pres then continued his education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. After earning his M.B.A. in 1957, he worked first at Smith Kline & French in Philadelphia then as a staff consultant at Arthur D. Little in Cambridge. While on a ski trip in Arapahoe, Colorado, on Thanksgiving, 1960, Pres met his future wife Gertrud Blum, a physical therapist from Switzerland. They were married on September 10, 1961, in Cambridge and rented in Bedford before buying their present house in Carlisle in 1963. With his interest in architecture, Pres worked at Acorn Structures in Acton for several years before becoming self-employed as a management consultant. He started Prescott Behn & Associates in 1974, first out of the home, then in 1977 in an office in Carlisle center. A couple years later he joined other independent consultants as part of the Concord Consulting Group. In 1983 he moved back into his home office and adopted the name Enterprise Group until retiring in 1995. Pres was also a president of the New England Chapter of the Institute of Management Consultants. Entrepreneurial, creative hobbies were also part of Pres' pursuits, with the garage as his workshop and studio. As a photographer in the late 1960s, he had a portrait studio in one half of the garage and a darkroom in the other. The design and manufacture of potter's wheels (as kits), some of which were sold to the Carlisle school art department, was a small business hobby in the 1970s. In 1994 Pres started a business in his retirement based on his design of Plexiglas interior storm windows (also sold as kits). He sold the successful Window Saver Company to his son Bradford in 2003. Art was also a hobby. In addition to photography and just a little pottery, Pres did abstract oil paintings, and pursued this hobby when he had more time in his 70s. Even more recently he dabbled in soldered-metal jewelry making. Pres and Gertrud raised their two children, Heather and Bradford, in Carlisle. A generation later Heather's family moved back to the same street and Pres was thrilled to be involved in the lives of his grandchildren, Henry and Erika, as they grew from toddlers into teens. In his garage workshop he designed and built numerous wooden toys for both his children and later his grandchildren. Most recently he helped build winning soapbox derby racers for his grandchildren. Pres also enjoyed playing chess with Henry and attending performances of musically talented Erika. Pres is survived by his wife Gertrud, daughter Heather Hedden, son-in-law Tom Hedden, and grandchildren Henry and Erika, all of Carlisle, his son Bradford and daughter-in-law So Rhee of Oklahoma City, OK, his sister Pamela Adam of Old Greenwich, CT, his brother Peter of Park City, UT, and eight nieces and nephews. Service: Memorial Service Saturday, October 1st at 3 PM in the First Religious Society, Carlisle.