Joseph L. Fromm ’53

Joe was anticipating attending his 60th reunion with his wife, the former Mary Macheak. However, he died July 31, 2013, as a result of two strokes at his Grosse Pointe, Mich., home.

At Princeton, he majored in economics, was assistant and then head baseball manager, and took his meals at Campus Club. His roommates were close friend Peter Ashurkoff, who was to introduce Joe to Mary, Norb Ehrmann, Bob Fosmoe ’52, and Paul Hertelendy.

After graduation he served in the Army and in 1958 graduated from Harvard Business School. In Detroit, he was an officer with American Motors and later Chrysler. When they merged, Joe moved on and founded his own consulting firm, Fiduciary Advisors.

Always interested in the public sector, Joe was a councilman and mayor of Grosse Pointe Farms. It’s been said that if he had been persuaded to run for mayor of Detroit and was elected, he would have helped solve some of its financial problems. He loved his family and served his community.

Joe is survived by Mary, whom he married after the death of his first wife, Beverly Booth Fromm; his children from his first marriage, Charles, Laurence, Kenneth, Lisa Simon, and Brian; and seven grandchildren.