Lester Levy ’42

Bud died May 8, 2004, in Amherst, Mass., of head injuries from a fall.

On the nationally ranked track relay team at Mercersburg [Pa.] Academy, Bud, sports maven that he was, played on the Princeton football, track, and baseball teams before leaving us at the end of sophomore year. No procrastinator he, Bud married his first wife, Ina Mae Aronberg, that June. They had two Tigers, William "Chip" B. '69 and Thomas "Thom" C. '71.

In World War II, athletic 1st Lt. Levy piloted Army Air Corps B-17s on 36 bombing missions over Germany.

Eventually, after stimulating the economy in various sales and management capacities in retailing, he rose to vice president of Sands Wholesale Drugs, from which he retired in 1984 to Pebble Beach, Calif., with his second wife, Tekla — in time to revel in a retirement packed with athletic challenges including seven years of Senior Olympics swimming. Tekla, who died in 1998, brought to Bud three stepdaughters and six step-grandchildren. He spent his last year in Amherst near son Thom. To the very end, his sense of humor never failed him.

Bud left a host of close friends. To them, to his first and to what he called his "additional family," the class extends deepest condolences.

The Class of 1942