Dawson Lycurgus Farber Jr. ’39

Lefty died peacefully in his sleep April 11, 2007, at his Brewster, Mass., home.

In our senior year he pitched for Princeton against Columbia at Baker Field in a game broadcast by NBC-TV, an event that was called the first televised baseball game.

Lefty entered the Army in 1941 and spent four years in the field artillery, becoming a captain. He saw action in the North African and Italian campaigns and was awarded both the Bronze and Silver Stars. He went on to a job at the National Brewery in Baltimore, his hometown, and was vice president of marketing from 1950 to 1975. He pushed for beer in metal cans instead of bottles and backed a new product, Colt 45 malt liquor. When National was sold to Carling in 1973, he became board chairman of Carling National, retiring in 1982. He served on the board of the Gilman School (his alma mater) for years and was named a lifetime trustee in 1981.

Lefty and his wife, Patty, were married in 1946 and had a daughter and five sons, one of whom is Peter ’70. They all shared his interest in Baltimore home teams and in sailing from their summer home in Brewster. In addition to his wife and children, Lefty leaves 15 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. We offer them our sincere sympathy.