Francis Pearre Fretwell ’48

Frank, a lifelong resident of Moore, S.C., died Oct. 28, 2005.

It was in Moore that he established the world-renowned Monfret Kennels and early on bred Ch Colonial Mint Julep of the Nass. The dog was known as "Nassau" and enabled Frank to get to know pretty much every Princetonian involved with dog shows.

At Princeton, Frank majored in politics and was a member of Campus Club. He graduated in February 1948 and soon returned to Moore, where he became an expert in the manufacturing of flour as well as feed for livestock, poultry, and dogs. He was a vice president of Spartan Grain and Mill Co. until his retirement in 1966.

As he put it: "I have devoted most of my time to breeding and showing black Standard Poodles and Italian Greyhounds, having bred probably more champion

poodles than any other man." He researched and edited four volumes of Poodles in America and was active as a dog-show judge worldwide.

Not surprisingly, Frank developed perhaps the world's largest private library of books about dogs, with more than 8,000 titles dating from the 16th century to the present.

Frank never married. He is survived by two nieces and two nephews.

The Class of 1948