Douglas F. Bauer ’64

Doug died Sept. 4, 2018, in Princeton. He was 75.

He grew up in Buffalo and attended Riverside High School, where he was both salutatorian and class poet. At Princeton Doug majored in classics and was awarded the Stinnecke Prize. He was also a member of Terrace Club and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

In 1967 he graduated from Harvard Law School and became a corporate attorney in New York, serving as chief legal officer for Amerace Corp. He then was corporate secretary of Bowne & Co., a financial printing firm founded in 1775. His collection of books on the Greek poet Pindar and other distinguished authors has been left to the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Collection at Princeton. A lover of “all things Princeton,” he was not only a collector of rare books and a member of both the Grolier Club and the Friends of the Princeton University Library, but also became a senior member of the library staff before his passing.

In later life, Doug and his husband, Louis Rossi, lived in the Princeton area and were proud to be the first same-sex couple to be married in Lawrence Township. They enjoyed living in Tigertown, and Doug will be missed.