Frank P. Slattery Jr. ’26

FRANK SLATTERY, a dynamic and innovative twoterm mayor of WilkesBarre, Penn., and a dominant political figure in his community for many years, died June 17, 1991.

Starts came to us from Georgetown Univ. in 1924, and after graduation he earned his LL.B. at the Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1929. In college he was a member of Elm Club and was on the scrub football team. An excellent public speaker, he was soon involved in Pennsylvania Republican politics and became chief counsel for the Lucerne County Republican Committee. He later became county district attorney. He entered the Army in 1942 as a second lieutenant and rose to the rank of major by Sept. 1945. In 1959 Slatts jumped to the Democratic Party and was elected mayor of WilkesBarre. By the end of his second term, Slatts had cleared the city slums, added women to the police department, promoted sanitary landfills, and had plans for developing the entire northeastern Pennsylvania region. Many of his municipal reforms and improvements in local government are still part of the city regulations of WilkesBarre today. In 1935 Slatts married Marguerite Goebel, who died in July 1990.

Slatts is survived by sons, Frank P. '59, who established, in honor of his father, the Frank P. Slattery Class of 1926 Scholarship in 1985, and Joseph A.; a brother, Duard '46; a sister, Mary Francis; and seven grandchildren, four of whom are Princetonians: Mary '86, Sara '90,julie '92, and Frank V ("Quint") '95; to ail of whom the Class sends its sympathy.

The class of 1926