Cornelius F. Froeb ’40

Neil died at his home in Annapolis Jan. 9, 2007, of congestive heart failure after a monthlong illness.

He graduated from Choate School, following his relative E.L. Shea ’16 to Princeton.

He majored in engineering geology, was on the 150-pound varsity crew, and joined Colonial Club. He served in the Navy as a lieutenant from 1943 to 1945 in the North Atlantic and Pacific theaters. From 1940

until 1943, Neil worked for Republic Aviation as a manufacturing engineer. From 1947 to 1980 he managed various departments for City Service Natural Gas Co. in numerous locations.

Neil was an avid sailor and lived on his boat, Merlyn, in Chesapeake Bay, while teaching sailing and celestial navigation at the Naval Academy. He was a past president of the Princeton Alumni Association of the Eastern Shore and a member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Chestertown, Md.

In his later years, with his second wife, Catherine, Neil said, “Merlyn is gone, replaced by a small, comfortable house.”

Neil and his first wife, Carol Wildermuth Froeb, were divorced in 1980. His classmates express their sympathies to his survivors: Catherine; sons Peter and John Froeb and John and Roland Hill; daughters Susan Papillon and Ann Hill Maxmill; a brother, Herman Froeb; 14 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.