Background
Waldron grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Waldron grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
He attended Fordham University, where he played on the football team and roomed with Vince Lombardi. He graduated from New York University with an Master of Business Administration in 1938.
He also served as President of the from 1965 to 1967 and again from 1968 to 1970. Waldron then became a certified public accountant and worked for the firm of Haskins and Sells for ten years. He left Haskins and Sells for the Rupert Knickerbocker Brewing Company, where he served as treasurer, vice president, executive vice president, and vice chairman of the board before becoming president in 1963.
In 1965, Waldron negotiated Rupert"s purchase of the from Louis Pieri and Marjorie Brown.
National Equities, Rupert"s parent company, later sold the brewing company but retained the Celtics. Waldron left Rupert and remained with the Celtics.
In 1967, Waldron moved to Ballantine as vice president There he negotiated Ballantine"s purchase of the Celtics and once again became team president
In 1969 he became president of Ballantine.
He resigned this position later that year when the company was purchased by Investors Funding Corporation. The Celtics were soon sold to Transport-National Communications and Waldron remained with the team In 1970, Waldron left the Celtics to become president of the Robbin-Dale Uniform Company.
Waldron died on July 20, 1971 at the age of 59 after a three-month bout with cancer.