Frank Meyer II ’37

Always jolly, enthusiastic Princetonian Dutch Meyer died of a heart attack Dec. 7, 1996, leaving Ginny, his wife of 50 years, sons Frank III, Steven, and Peter, and four grandchildren.

Dutch came to Princeton from Mercersburg, to which he was always loyal, where he was president of the Dramatic Society, on publications boards, and active in intramural athletics. At Princeton he majored in English. After college Dutch worked for the New York World's Fair Corp., Canadian Colonial Airlines, and the federal government before spending four and a half years in the Air Force, emerging a captain after serving with fighter outfits at France Field in the Canal Zone, the southwest Pacific, and from New Guinea to Okinawa.

He was then for 38 years a manufacturers' representative of industrial electrical materials before retiring in 1976. Becoming bored, he took courses and worked for Metropolitan Life for two years and then went with Financial Planning Co., P & R Associates, representing Mutual of New York, and, after passing a state exam, selling real estate for Fox & Lazo.

At our 30th reunion he wrote, "Returning to Princeton for reunion on that special spring weekend restores my soul, especially in these times when machines and computers dehumanize so many of mankind, for seeing classmates, even though I may not remember some of their names, reminds me that they are bond brother in '37 and, therefore, someone special. I always return from a reunion refreshed in mind and spirit, because for me it is like a two-week vacation condensed into two or three days."

The Class of 1937