Dwight Sullivan ’45

Bud grew up in Scarsdale, N.Y., and graduated from Philips Exeter Academy. At Princeton he was a member of Cannon Club and Orange Key and vice president of the Press Club. He played freshman lacrosse.

He left Princeton to enlist in the Army, serving as a B-24 bomber pilot as a first lieutenant in the 6th Army Air Force in the Galapagos Islands, Panama, and Guatemala. He was honorably discharged at the rank of captain and graduated cum laude from Princeton in 1947. He attended Harvard Law School.

Bud moved to Florida to work for Landis, Fish, Hull & Whitehair. Later he joined Steele, Hector, and Davis, where he was a partner for many years before going into private practice. He served on various committees of the New York and Florida bar associations and on the board of the Coconut Grove Civic Club. He was a member of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club and Plymouth Church.

Bud died April 4, 2017. He was predeceased by his parents, John Dwight Sullivan 1915 and Evelyn Houghton Sullivan; brother Roger Houghton Sullivan ’48; son Thomas Lord Sullivan; and wives Lucinda Gibson Sullivan, Joy Shaw Sullivan, and Rosamond Morgan. He is survived by his daughter Katherine Sullivan Lindseth and her husband, Andrew; and their children Anne, Caroline, and Jay.