Vondy died Jan. 12, 2008, at Duncaster Retirement Community in Bloomfield, Conn.

He was the son of George A. Vondermuhll Sr. 1904 and Kate Louise Knapp. George grew up in Manhattan and in Litchfield, Conn., with frequent trips to Basel, Switzerland, where he was a dual citizen. He prepared for Princeton at Buckley and St. Mark’s in Southboro, Mass. As an undergraduate, he majored in economics and graduated cum laude.  He roomed with Mike Morgan, Bill Nicoll, and Ed Gullion. He was a member of  Charter Club, was secretary of the Press Club, sang in the glee club and choir, and was assistant organist at the Chapel.

Following postgraduate work at the Institute of International Studies in Geneva and research at the International Labor Office, George worked in textile factories in New Bedford and North Adams, Mass., and on the editorial staff of Business Week magazine.  He then devoted the next 40 years to the worldwide program of Moral Re-Armament (now Initiatives of Change), becoming a director and corporate secretary. Unable to serve during World War II because of chronic osteomyelitis, he took part in successful MRA initiatives to strengthen the domestic war effort of American industry by bridging divisions between organized labor and management. After the war, George spent extensive periods in postwar Germany while MRA aided in that nation’s rebuilding and spiritual recovery.

In 1948, Vondy married Rosamond Lombard, also an MRA field representative, in Caux, Switzerland. Returning to America in 1950, they resided in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and New York, retiring  to Litchfield in 1980. There he became a Rotarian, was head deacon of the First Congregational Church, and served on the boards of My Country Society, Inc., the Greater Litchfield Preservation Trust, and the Keimei Fund for International Education.

George and Rosamond moved to Duncaster in 1984 when it opened, and he served as founding president of its residents’ association. He was a member of Old St. Andrew’s Church, the Bloomfield Rotary Club, the Bloomfield Republican Town Committee, and the advisory committee to the Connecticut Commissioner on Aging for Continuing-Care Retirement Community Legislation.

Raised in a Princeton family, Vondy was devoted to the University, his classmates, and those of his father’s Class of 1904, for whom he served as secretary in its last years.

Vondy was predeceased by his wife in 1999. He is survived by his son, Alfred Vondermuhll ’71, and grandchildren Nicholas and Isabel. To them, the class extends its sincere condolences.

The Class of 1935