Carl Philip Sahler ’25

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CARL SAHLER was born in Germantown, N.Y., in 1905, and graduated from Andover. At Princeton he won his letter in soccer and was a member of Terrace. He left us at the end of junior year, but maintained a keen interest in Princeton and the Class. He served on our 20th reunion committee. He lived in Basking Ridge, NJ., for 28 years, where he was prominent in community affairs: he was an elder and trustee of the Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church, president of Bernard Township Board of Education, chairman of Junlor Achievement in Union Cry., and a member of the Broad Acres Tennis Club, the Essex Club of Newark, and the Princeton Club of N.Y. He retired as president of the Thatcher Furnace Co. of Garwood in 196o.

He and his wife, Beatrice, moved to Canandaigua, N.Y., in 1981 to be near their son, Dr. Carl Jr. '66. They celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary in June 1989. He died Jan. 17, 1990. The Class extends sympathy to Beatrice, sons Carl and Bruce, daughter Sandra Gregg, and six grandchildren.

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