Duard Geis Slattery ’45

Duard Slattery died June 16, 2007. 

Slats entered Princeton from Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pa., and joined Tower Club. His war service as an infantry officer with the 35th Division in Europe resulted in his receiving a Bronze Star. Returning to Princeton, he received a degree in psychology in 1948 and began an advertising career with the Sullivan Stauffer firm in New York. In 1948, he married Prudence Tallman. They divorced, and Slats concentrated on a highly successful career in the advertising world and the esoteric world of film production. 

Slats wrote or produced documentaries that won more than 10 international film festival awards. His first documentary, Day of the Painter, earned an Oscar from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for Best Short Subject in 1960. Slats retired to Wilkes-Barre, Pa., returning to his roots in the Wyoming Valley. 

Slats is survived by his son Duard Jr.; his daughter, Anne Howard; and three grandchildren, to all of whom the class expresses its sympathy.