David Wiessler ’64

Dave died Feb. 14, 2015, in Washington, D.C., from renal failure.

He was born in Cambridge, Mass., and raised in Allentown, Pa. Dave attended Parkland High School, where he was president of the Key Club and a member of the National Honor Society and the student council. He began his career in journalism writing for the school newspaper and yearbook.

At Princeton, Dave was a history major and a member of Cannon Club and the Orange Key. He roomed with 16 classmates in Foulke during his senior year.

After college, he moved to Texas, which proved to be quite providential. Dave began his professional career working for United Press International in Dallas while working on his master’s degree in history at the University of Texas. There, he also had the good fortune to meet his wife, Judy, a fellow journalist. In 1973, they moved to Washington, D.C., where Dave continued his career as bureau chief for UPI while Judy headed the Washington bureau of the Houston Chronicle. He retired in 2009.   

Sadly, Judy predeceased him in December 2013. Dave is survived by his sister, Barbara Pettis, and his nieces, Cynthia Wegel and Lauren Wegel, to whom the class expresses its deep sympathy.