Charles Roberts Kamm ’38

Charley Kamm died July 24, 1997, with his wife, Alice, and family at his side, at the Fort Benton, Mont., home of his daughter Wendy. He had had several strokes during years of battling Parkinson's disease.

Charley came to Princeton from Lawrenceville and earned a BS in engineering. He went on to become the only Eightball to earn an MBA at Stanford prior to WWII. He rose to the rank of lieutenant in the Navy, serving as torpedo officer on subchasers in both Atlantic and Australian waters.

Charley spent some 17 years working on industrial projects in Manila, Peru, and Africa, during which time he served as president of the American Society of Peru. After a stint in NYC, he spent nine years as the founder and president of a real estate firm in Strong, Maine.

Flying and tennis were among his hobbies, and he had a decades-long membership in the Burlingame Country Club. When he retired, he and Alice, whom he married in Manila in 1949, moved to Hollister, Calif., where for almost 40 years they cohosted '38 tailgate parties at Stanford football games.

He is survived by Alice, as well as five children, Barbara, Walker, Wendy, Charles "Mike," and Peter, and five grandchildren. To all of them, the class extends its sympathy.

The Class of 1938