Antonio G. Giraud ’53

Tony died May 13, 2002, in his home in Houston, only two months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

He accepted his approaching fate with philosophic resignation and with a renewed nostalgia for Princeton. Although he withdrew from the university after sophomore year, no one harbored more of a lifelong affection for the place (where his Cuban-born father had received a doctorate) or for his Princeton friends. He conversed with his former roommates George Carleu and Tom LeBrun and with Terry Connolly in his final weeks.

Born in Mexico City, Tony attended the Peddie School. He was a member of the International Student Union, Whig-Clio, and the Catholic Club. But due to his outgoing, gregarious personality, Tony was known widely among staff and faculty, as well as students.

Following a long and varied career, mostly in Mexico and Acapulco, that encompassed public relations, hotel promotion, and television production, Tony spent the last several years as a journalist for the Spanish language weekly, Le Voz de Houston. To his wife, Dulce Maria, and to his sons, Peter and Pastor, the class extends its sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1953