Amory J. Parmentier Jr. ’39 *40

Our champion épée fencer died July 26, 2014, in his longtime winter home of Durham, N.C.

Bud’s lifelong career with Procter & Gamble “began” when he was an electrical engineering major at Princeton. His thesis was on “The Design and Construction of a Fixed Frequency Stroboscope.”

After touring Europe by bicycle in the memorable summer of 1939, Bud started at P&G in Cincinnati. In 1942 he joined the Navy, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant, doing combat duty in the Pacific and teaching about radar and sonar at MIT and Harvard. After his discharge in February 1946, Bud went back to P&G, working at various locations until settling at the Port Ivory plant on Staten Island, while living in Westfield, N.J.

For many years, Bud’s summer home was his farm in West Paris, Maine. He retired from P&G after 37 years in 1979. That year, he wrote in our 40th-reunion book that “common sense, patience, and a sense of humor have helped me over some rough spots, and enable me to enjoy each day as it comes.”

Bud is survived by his two sons, Ed ’69 and Rick ’71; and by other members of his family, including nephew Jim Parmentier ’66.