David S. Long ’37

Cheerful, friendly, humorous, frequent letter-to-the-editor writer Snapper Long died Sept. 16, 1997, surviving his wife, Ann, and leaving a niece and two grandnieces.

Snapper earned a graduate degree at the U. of Pittsburgh and studied at Cornell, Union Theological Seminary, the U. of Pennsylvania, the American Academy in Rome, and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. During WWII, he rose from private to first lieutenant artillery officer. Awarded the Bronze Star and Air Medals for our European campaigns from Normandy through Austria as a forward and air observer, he said, "Been going thru Hell. Damned interesting war, tho."

He worked with the Shenango Pottery Co. in manufacturing, sales, and as a department foreman. After 1952 he taught at several schools, including the Armed Forces Institute in Salzburg, Kiski, The Hill, St. Louis Country Day, and finally, for 17 years, at Slippery Rock U., where he was voted best teacher. He retired in 1980 to raise melons on his 100-acre farm.

He was a proponent of Princeton coeducation. Review his unforgettable memories in our 50th Yearbook. He said in 1991, "My 30 years in academia have convinced me that our higher education establishment is now firmly in the hands of a demolition derby crew bent on nothing less than the destruction of Western civilization."

The Class of 1937