Wesley John Bahr ’38
Wesley Bahr died Jan. 4, 2010, in Brick, N.J.
Wes graduated from Far Rockaway (N.Y.) High School. At Princeton he majored in politics, was on the rugby team junior and senior years and the cross-country team freshman year, and played intramural basketball. Freshman and sophomore years, he roomed with Raymond Howe, and junior and senior years with Boice Esser.
During World War II, Wes was an Army captain serving in a field artillery and air-observation unit in France and Germany.
After the war, Wes engaged in banking. He became president and chairman of the board of First Federal Savings & Loan Association of New York. Wes also served as a director of Collective Federal Savings Bank.
His wife, Vera Bahr, predeceased him. He is survived by a daughter, Judy Kopka; a son, Wesley Craig Bahr; a sister, Ruth Beach; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren, to all of whom the class extends its sincere sympathy.
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Amy Deane Brasfield (neé Moffitt)
1 Month AgoRemembering a Coworker
I worked for Mr. Bahr as his secretary when he was vice president of First Federal. I was in the mortgage department, and he asked me to join him. Fully offended, I replied that I was a college graduate, and certainly not! He said, “I want you to help me become president,” and I’d like to think I did! I wrote all his speeches for the S&L Institute. He was a joy to know and I adored him. He graduated from Princeton the year I was born.
When he was vice president, he would occasionally take me to lunch at Schraft’s He would have a blonde Dubonnet on the rocks, and I, white wine. When he was promoted, he graduated to a martini, and I to the Dubonnet! Only place I’ve ever seen it!