Andy died Jan. 13, 2013, in Longmont, Colo., at age 89.
He was born in Czechoslovakia. The family moved to the United States in 1927, settling first in Pennsylvania and then in Trenton. Andy graduated from trade school as a carpenter and a year later from high school. During World War II he joined the Marines and served as a midshipman on a destroyer in the North Atlantic.
At Princeton he was in the Marine Corps V-12 program and Navy ROTC. He was a member of Key and Seal and graduated with honors in engineering. Andy was a decorated veteran of the Korean conflict, and retired in 1983 from the Marine Reserve as a lieutenant colonel.
Andy’s civilian career was as a mechanical, civil, and aerospace engineer and project manager — at Princeton’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, J.A. Roebling, Lockheed Martin, and Colorado Fuel and Iron.
After his retirement in 1988, Andy was a deacon in the Byzantine Catholic Church and Fourth Degree in the Knights of Columbus.
Andy married Olga Franchak in 1956. During his retirement they traveled in Europe and taught English to doctors and nurses in the newly independent Slovakia. Olga survives him, as do their sons Sergius, Michael, Paul, David, and Gregory and their spouses; a brother; and two sisters.