Grant Tozer Waldref ’33

Grant died Oct. 1, 1997. He came to college from Stillwater, Minn., having prepared at Exeter. He was in the Glee Club and Triangle and belonged to Elm Club.

He went to Harvard Business School after graduation, then returned to Minnesota and began a lifelong association with the Interstate Lumber Co.

During WWII, he served in the Navy in the Pacific and attained the rank of lieutenant commander. At the time of our 20th reunion, Grant was president of the lumber company and listed his hobbies as competitive sailing and squash. He became a winter resident of Naples, Fla., in 1956.

Tim Kilty '55, who went to Princeton because of Grant, reports that Grant founded the Tozer Scholarship Foundation in 1946 through a family trust and that "in 50 years, 500 students from the St. Croix Valley (on the St. Croix River between Minnesota and Wisconsin) have received scholarships totaling $30,000,000." Tim adds, "He was a kind and gentle man whom I will miss a great deal."

Grant is survived by his wife, Dorothy, his son Grant Jr., and stepsons David Girk and Charles Girk, to whom we extend sympathy.

The Class of 1933