James Brady McCahey Jr. ’42

Jim died Sept. 9, 1998, in University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio, after a losing bout with myelodisplasia.

Jim prepared at Lake Forest Academy. At Princeton he graduated with honors in history and joined Elm Club. An Army major, he served with the 42nd Rainbow Division in the European theater. His unit liberated Dachau. He was awarded the Bronze Star with cluster for valor on the field, and the French army's Fleur de Lis for courageous acts. He stayed in Austria to help refugees for a year after war ended.

Jim attended law school at night in Chicago, joining the Dunn Coal and Oil Co., of which he became president. He became v.p. of the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad in 1963 and president in 1966. When the Chessie System acquired it, he moved to Cleveland as s.v.p. of merchandise sales and marketing, retiring in 1985.

Always politically involved, Jim joined his father and President Truman at cards, handled special projects for Mayor Daley, and managed Kennedy's Wisconsin and West Virginia primaries. But family was Jim's priority. He also established new records for Annual Giving as class agent, served on our executive committee, and was a regular reuner.

To his wife, Mary Lou; his children, J. Brady, Michael, Bill, Kathleen, Susan, and Mary Lorraine; and his nine grandchildren, the class offers its most sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1942