Lefferts Strebeigh ’36

LEFF DIED Oct. 10, 1990 in San Antonio, Tex., after a brief illness. He prepared at Kent School. At Princeton he was a member of Colonial Club. He left Princeton at the end of his sophomore year but maintained a lifelong devotion to the University and Class.

When the draft was initiated in 1940, he was among the first group to be inducted in the army for WWII service. Rising through the ranks in the infantry, he early on volunteered for paratroop duty and served overseas with the famous 82nd Airborne Division. He served in the Aleutians and European theaters. He was discharged in 1946 with the rank of captain.

After the war he was associated for a time with Hawley Lord, producer of 16m.m. films, but for most of the years prior to his retirement in the mid1970s, he was associated with the Allen Travel Service. In 1979 he moved from his native N.Y.C. to San Antonio, spending most of the year there and wintering in Acapulco, Mexico.

Whenever possible, he maintained close contact with Princeton, his Class, the 82nd Airborne and friends of Kent School. He indeed will be missed. Leff is survived by his twin brothers Robert M. '45 and Woodruff F.

The Class of 1936