From 1975 to 1983, the prime-time television audience in Cincinnati knew Sam as Judge Paul Trevor on the Juvenile Court TV show. During that time, and from 1965 until his retirement in 1993, Sam was an attorney practicing law while also teaching at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

A Cincinnati native whose father had been that city’s mayor for eight years, Sam spent 13 years after Princeton as a reporter and editorial writer for Cincinnati’s daily afternoon newspaper. When the paper was sold, he went to law school. Teaching and practicing law at the University of Cincinnati followed, including nine years as the school’s dean or acting dean during, as he later put it, “the time of student unrest, which provided more experience than I wanted in crisis management.”

When Sam died June 25, 2014, he was survived by his wife of nearly 61 years, Anne N. Wilson; his children, Clare Wilson Richart, Eliza Wilson Kirkpatrick, Russell Wilson ’80, and Andrew Wilson; 12 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. To them all, ’46 sends warmest condolences.

Undergraduate Class of 1946