James Wesley Samuels ’34

Jimmy Samuels, the perennial host of our "Big Three" luncheons in Jadwin Gym, died on Aug. 6, 1989, at his home in Princeton while watching television with his wife Betsy. He had run the pre-football game lunches since 1959 and planned to do so again for the Yale game in November.

Except for five years after college, Jim had lived in Princeton since 1920. "Whenever I hear 'Going Back to Nassau Hall,' I realize I've never really been away," he liked to say. He worked for the Princeton Herald, a weekly that his mother, Harriet Samuels, had founded in 1923, and the Graphic Arts Press, which printed the Daily Princetonian. A lifelong sports enthusiast, Jim rarely missed a Tiger baseball, basketball, or football game. He came to know most of the coaches, and "Be¬lieve me," he said, "I have not hesitated to tell them how it was done in 1934!"

A brother, Norvell B. (Red) Samuels '24, died in 1977. Jim is survived by Betsy (Elizabeth Willey), whom he married in 1958, after his first wife died; two daughters, Wesley Ross and Brenda Zellner; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. To them we offer our most sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934