Groverman Blake ’27

Groverman "Grove" Blake died Feb. 8, 1995, at Christ Hospital in his native Cincinnati, following a stroke. Grove prepared at Taft School. At Princeton, he was a member of the freshman and varsity track teams and of Colonial Club, In WWII, he was a major in the Air Force in Italy as a combat intelligence officer. For many years, he served the Cincinnati Times Star as literary, dramatic, and music editor and columnist. When the Times Star merged with the Cincinnati Post in 1958, Grove became a freelance writer and edited a local magazine, the Cincinnati Dimension. He married Kitty Phillips Kittredge and they had a son Anthony '50. He died in 1980 in a motor vehicle accident. Anthony is commemorated by a Princeton Scholarship in math that bears his name. After Kitty's death in 1969, he married Dortha Vagtborg. To his widow, Dortha, the class extends its deep sympathy.