David Ernest Daum ’60

Dave died of cancer Nov. 1, 2008, in San Juan Island, Wash.

He was born July 31, 1939, in Pittsburgh and attended Shady Side Academy, where he was a member of the student council, glee club, and the football and wrestling teams.

Dave majored in aeronautical engineering at Princeton and was a member of Cannon Club and the Flying Club. After graduation, he went to work with JOY Manufacturing Co., a maker of capital equipment, in Buffalo and later New Philadelphia, Ohio; Seattle; San Francisco; and Minneapolis. In 1970, Dave opened a new operation in Long Beach, Calif., for Sullair Corp., a compressor manufacturer. He earned an M.B.A. from Cal State, Long Beach after five years in night school and had assignments in Michigan City, Ind., and Santa Barbara, Calif.

For many years after he retired in 1993, Dave and his wife, Marilyn, spent summer and fall in the San Juan Islands and the winter and spring in Los Cabos, Mexico, at the southern tip of Baja California.

His wife; daughter Anjeanette Daum Yglesias; son Matthew Daum; and grandchildren Isabella Ruth Yglesias, Joseph David Yglesias, and Nathaniel James Yglesias survived Dave. The class extends sincere condolences to all the family.