Ettore Howard Grassi ’42

Bud, a prominent textile executive, died April 24, 2006, in Chestertown, Md.

A graduate of St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H., where he was an outstanding athlete, Bud left us at the end of freshman year to hold a seat on the New York Stock Exchange until he joined the Army in 1941. He performed the hazardous duty of parachuting behind Japanese lines at night to show Siamese guerillas how to liberate Allied prisoners from Japanese prison camps. He was discharged as a captain. In 1942, he married Edith Gwathway. They had three children, Louise, Temple, and Edward.

Bud began his career at Mount Vernon Woodbury Mills in Baltimore. After that branch was closed, he moved to corporate headquarters in Greenville, S.C., where he rose to executive vice president. Finally he moved to New York, where he became president of Turner Halsey, the selling agent for Mount Vernon Mills.

After retiring in 1983, Bud and Edith moved to Chestertown, where he served on several boards and the vestry of Emmanuel Episcopal Church. In 2002, they moved to Chestertown's Heron Point and continued to spend summers at their home in Seal Harbor, Maine.

To Edith, Louise, Temple, Edward, and Edith's six grandchildren, the class extends deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1942