Frederick M. Winter Jr. ’37

WIDOWER DUKE WINTER, son of Fred Winter Sr '08 ' died May 14, 1992, in a hospital in Mystic, Conn., where he had been a patient for several weeks. He left two daughters, Valorie and Lucinda; four grandchildren; and a sister, Anne Wetmore.

Duke prepared at Lawrenceville, where he was a swimmer. He left Princeton in February of sophomore year, took a trip to England, and then became a shipping clerk and, later, freight solicitor with Funch Edye & Co. in New York, describing himself, from 1936 to 1941, as metallurgist. From 1942 to 1945, he was in the Army, working up from private to first lieutenant in the 10th Mountain Division, which numbered less than 10 ' 000. They had trained in Colorado for combat skiing in the mountains of Italy in the E.T.O. From 1946 to 1965, lie was a sales engineer; in 1947 a metallurgist with Simonds Saw & Steel Corp. in Fitchburg, Mass.; and in 1962 a metallurgist with Metal Carbides Corp, in Newark, N.J. From 1965 to 1980, he was in retail sales of marine supplies. He retired in 1980 to Stonington, Conn., where he had resided since 1957, to enjoy his hobby of sailing at the Wadawamuck Yacht Club. In 1965 he rendezvoused and chartered a 32foot sail auxiliary with Johnny Fales and Bill Soverel at Three Mile Harbor, Long island, during the first night layover of the spring Off Soundings.

The Class sends all its sympathies to the family.

The Class of 1937