David D. Frank ’45

David Frank died Nov. 28, 2011, from complications of Parkinson’s disease.

Dave entered Princeton from Kingswood School in West Hartford, Conn., following in the footsteps of his brother, Arthur ’41. Dave joined Tower Club, but his Princeton studies were interrupted by service with the Army, during which he saw combat as a field artillery officer in the Pacific. Dave was among the ROTC contingent commissioned at Fort Sill. He returned to Princeton in 1945 and graduated from what is now the Woodrow Wilson School in 1947.

Dave worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and later began his public-relations career at the American Locomotive Co. in Schenectady and Canada. Dave next joined the public-relations firm of T.J. Ross & Associates, of which he was president for six years before retiring in 1986. He served as president of the New York Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.

In 1948 he married Marcia Peaslee. They retired to Texas in 1989 and in 2002 they moved to a retirement home in Denton, Texas, where they enjoyed a decade until his death.

In addition to his wife and brother, Dave is survived by daughters Wendy, Mary, and Amy; son Tom Frank ’73; 10 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. The class expresses sympathy to the family.