Hamilton F. Klie ’38

Tony Klie died of cancer in Sanibel, Fla., July 31, 1995. He graduated from Univ. School in Cleveland. At Princeton he majored in history and public affairs. He earned Phi Beta Kappa, was on the baseball squad three years, and graduated with highest honors. He went to Western Reserve Univ. Law School, where he was editor of its Law Review. He earned honors and the order of the Coif award. After he passed the Ohio bar exam with the highest grade theretofore attained, he joined what is now the Baker & Hostetler law firm in Cleveland. During WWII, he served in the Navy and trained military personnel at Cornell.

In 1946 he left law to join Smith & Oby Co., a plumbing contracting firm which his father had headed. He wrote the Cleveland Hometown Plan, through which unions admitted apprentices from minority groups. He served on the Alumni Council, was president of the Princeton Alumni Assn. of Northern Ohio, and founded a schools and scholarship committee for the area. He and his wife, Ruth, moved to Sanibel in 1984.

He is survived by Ruth, his son, Gary, and daughters, Kathleen Vranich and Susan Schroeder. Cleveland, Sanibel, Princeton, and the class will miss this dynamic leader.

The Class of 1938