Anthony Widmann ’49

Tony Widmann died unexpectedly Oct. 11, 2013. He had attended Reunions the previous May and seemed well at the time.

Tony came to Princeton from Phillips Exeter Academy. He majored in architecture and was a member of Tiger Inn and the Princeton Yacht Club. After two tours of duty in the Navy, he started working in advertising, eventually starting his own agency, Millennium Design Communications, later Widmann & Co., in 1972.

Following his retirement from advertising in 1994, he left Madison Avenue to set up a yacht-brokerage agency, which enabled him to concentrate on his first love, sailing. Over the years, Tony sailed and raced many boats, the latest of which, the 6-meter Ranger, competed in the 2009 6-Meter World Cup in Rhode Island. Our 25-year and 50-year reunion books have marvelous pictures of Tony at the helm of several of his sailboats. For him, that was paradise on Earth.

At the time of his death, he was survived by his wife, Anne Morgan Widmann; children Alison W. Kinney, James C. Widmann, and Sabina W. Hernandez; and his grandchildren. To them all, the class offers deep condolences.