Fred Clair St. Charlot Jr. ’37

FRED DIED in Mexico City in May 1989, leaving a widow, Lili, whom he married in 1955, a son Freddy, daughters Lilita and Mary Elizabeth, and a sister in Vero Beach, Mrs. Theodore P. Desloge.

He prepared at St. Louis Country Day, was on the tennis team, was manager of basketball, and was active in dramatics and publications. At Princeton he majored in economics and graduated with honors. He was on the freshman swimming squad, was circulation manager of the Dink, served on the Pictorial Board, and worked on the Prince for four years, the last two as columnist. He was a member of Key and Seal.

For a few years he lived in St. Louis, doing newspaper reporting and then accounting, but in 1940 he was lured to Mexico with the idea of air-exporting gardenias, camelias, and orchids. This idea, however, gave way to developing a power project for sugar and saw mills, a tourist camp, the lumber business, and making railroad ties for the Mexican Railway. He "saw the light" in 1942 and went with Price Waterhouse in Mexico, spending many months each year doing accounting work in Central America. He was promoted to supervisor in 1954 and manager in 1955. He "semiretired" in 1982. In the 1960s he was on the auditing and plans and properties committee of the American Cowdray Hospital's board of governors. He always made sure he received PAW and "mighty welcome it is." The class sends the family its deepest condolences.

The Class of 1937