Bernard Gautraic La De Greeff ’29

BERNIE DIED Oct. 7, 1992. He prepared for college at Choate. At Princeton he was a member of the crew squad and Glee Club and was in Elm Club. His roommates were Johnny Angus, Jim Lee, and Jud Murphy. He worked with the Pennsylvania Railroad, International Printing Ink Co., and Flintkote Co. During the war he served as commander of a landing shiptank (L.S.T.), serving in landings in Sicily and Salerno, and be navigated his L.S.T, from Gary, Ind., down the Mississippi and across the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. He was wounded in the Anzio landing. After the war, he bought a farm in Morgan Hill, Calif., where he raised Aberdeen Angus. He later moved to the Eastern Shore, where he lived much of the time on his yacht. In 1971, he moved to the Santa Barbara area. He was on the board of Talbot County Free Library and Talbot United Fund, was on the vestry of All Faith Chapel, and served as president of the Princeton Alumni Assn. of the Eastern Shore. He sang for many years with the University Glee Club of New York. lie belonged to Wiscasset Yacht Club, in Maine; Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club; and Talbot County Country Club. In 1955 he married Harriet Snider, and she survives, as well as their daughter Harriet (Mrs. John H. Robinson Jr.). The Class extends sincere sympathy to Bernie's family.

The Class of 1929