John W. Cuff ’25

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Jack was born in N.Y.C. and prepared at Horace Mann School. At Princeton, he was on the polo squad and won first prize in the R.O.T.C. Horse Show. He left Princeton after junior year to enter business, and 45 years later, he retired from the Anti-Hydro Co., of Newark, N.J.

He was a member of the Lions Club, the Community Ambulance Service, and the Recreational Associates in Skippack, Penn. He also served on the Parish Council of St. Eleanor's Catholic Church and was a member of the Princeton Club of Philadelphia.

He died in Montgomery Hospital, in Philadelphia, on May 25, 1989. His wife, the former Mildred St. Clair, predeceased him. He is survived by a brother, William, two nephews, and two nieces.

The Class of 1925

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