Donald McBurney Curtis ’32

Don Curtis died Oct. 8, 2001. He prepared at Newton [Mass.] High School. At Princeton, he was in the orchestra and band, on the fencing team and lacrosse squad, and in Gateway Club. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1935. He was corporate secretary and counsel for New England Gas and Electric Assn. from 1936-40.

During WWII he served with the United Kingdom Jr. Service Staff College; Headquarters U.S. EUCOM in Frankfurt, Germany; CO 142nd and 72nd FA Groups in Germany; and then was a student at Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Czechoslovakian War Cross of 1939, and received Belgian and French decorations.

In our 50th reunion book, Don said, "Main interest in life is combating intellectual dishonesty in national security matters on whatever level I find it, and raising my kids to be good citizens, with pride in their country and in Princeton, and to be Princetonians in the nation's service. I also am prone to bang the hell out of any handy piano on occasion, when suitably primed . . . "

He is survived by two sons, Bruce and Anthony, and a daughter, Carol, to whom the class sends sincere condolences.

The Class of 1932