David R. Blossom ’32

Dave Blossom, 95, of Kiantone, N.Y., died Sept. 17, 2005, after a short illness.

He prepared at Salisbury School. His late brother, Warren Blossom, was in the Class of '31. At Princeton he was freshman fencing manager and manager of Whig Hall. Sophomore, junior, and senior years he roomed with Levin L. Waters. After graduating from Princeton and from New York University School of Law in 1936, Dave was employed by the New York law firm of Alexander & Green.

From 1942 to 1946 he served in the Army, and in 1945 and 1946 he was an officer in the military government of Munich, Germany. In 1958 he retired from the Army Reserve as a colonel. He returned to Alexander & Green, where he remained until 1963, and practiced law from his Brooklyn Heights home until 1972.

Dave served four years as the town justice of Kiantone; served as president of the Jamestown (N.Y.) Bar association, receiving its first outstanding service award; and was instrumental in creating the Lucille Wright Air Museum. He was a generous supporter of many Jamestown-area charities.

In 1963, he married Margaret Brustrom, who predeceased him. He is survived by his sister, Julia P.B. Van Zanten, and numerous nephews and nieces, to whom the class extends deep sympathy.

The Class of 1932