August Frederick Kammer Jr. ’34

Fred Kammer, a former member of the U.S. Olympic hockey team and of the Walker Cup golf team, died Feb. 21, 1996, in Hobe Sound, Fla., where he had lived since 1983. He won an Olympic bronze medal in 1936 playing on the U.S. hockey team at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In 1947 he played on the victorious Walker Cup team at St. Andrew's in Scotland. He won a Pro-Am golf tournament at Seminole in Palm Beach in 1961 paired with Arnold Palmer, with whom he matched strokes. Altogether he qualified and played in nine U.S. Amateur tournaments from 1935-64, when he advanced to the semifinals. At the Country Club of Detroit he was club champion 15 times.

Before his retirement, in 1981, Fred was v.p. of Essex Intl., in Detroit, originally Essex Wire Co., founded by his grandfather. Earlier he worked at Street & Finney and Time, Inc., in Manhattan.

Surviving are his wife, Barbara ( the widow of James Fentress '44), whom he married in 1994; two sons, August F. III and Addison; a daughter, Pauline; and five grandchildren. To them we offer sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934