Andrew J. Duany ’37

Cuban expatriate, Princeton father Andy (or Andres) Duany died Aug. 1, 1996, of a heart ailment. He left Enid, his wife of 48 years, sons Andres '71 (with wife Elizabeth '72, a Princeton trustee, both featured on the cover and inside the June 7, 1994, issue of paw) and Douglas '75, daughter Enid '73, and two grandchildren.

At Choate, Andy was into football, wrestling, and track, but a serious knee injury ended his football career at Princeton, where he was in the economics department and a member of Cannon Club.

After graduation he returned to Cuba to oversee his family's sugar plantation and to raise cattle, "spending 10 years on horseback." This was followed by 10 years as a developer in his ancestral home of Santiago de Cuba, building a modern suburb, eventually covering 43 large city blocks with 100 houses built of monolithic reinforced concrete, impervious to earthquakes and hurricanes, and with streets winding through the hills of what was once a dairy farm. He pioneered FHA-type mortgages, making home ownership widely accessible to the middle class. However, within a week of his company's nationalization in Oct. 1960, he sent his wife and children out of the country and left Cuba when he was 46, with regret but not bitterness. They spent 25 years in exile in Barcelona before retiring to Miami.

The Class of 1937