Leo Walter Cabell ’49

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Leo came to Princeton from Newport News H.S. after service in the Army in WWII. He was wounded in action in the Battle of the Bulge. At Princeton, he was in the Woodrow Wilson School and was a member of Dial Lodge. He was 74. He died as the result of a diving accident in Nova Scotia on Aug. 12, 1999. He attended our 50th reunion.

After graduation he earned a master's degree in library science from Rutgers. He worked at Cornell, and then went to the U. of Colorado in 1966, where he was associate director of libraries until he retired in 1990.

Leo's hobbies included skiing, hiking, and scuba diving. In retirement he enjoyed traveling and visiting friends.

There were no close surviving relatives. The class will miss him.

The Class of 1949

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