Walter S. Furlow died Jan. 14, 2008, in Washington, D.C., from a brain injury resulting from a fall in 2001. He was 82. Sam entered Princeton in the V-12 program in the fall of 1942, majored in medieval history, and graduated cum laude and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. His first job - with the State Department's Diplomatic Courier Service - took him throughout the Americas and the Middle East, most memorably to Cairo. He studied at Harvard Law School from 1948 to 1951, and then worked as counsel in the Navy Department until joining a private law firm in Washington in 1955, where he specialized in estate planning and management. He was eventually named partner in the firm Lambert & Furlow. In 1975, Sam became a lecturer on wills and trusts at Columbus School of Law of The Catholic University of America, and three years later, was named an assistant professor. He taught a full course load while maintaining a private practice in estate law until his accident in 2001. Sam's wife of 18 years, Barbara Alice Blair Furlow, died in 1972. He is survived by his sister, Mary Furlow.
Undergraduate Class of 1946