Livingston Day Watrous ’38

Pete Watrous died Sept. 1, 1998, at his home on Nantucket. Pete attended Kent School and at Princeton majored in politics and was a member of the Triangle and Colonial Clubs. After graduation he earned an advanced degree in political science at Columbia and then joined the Foreign Service in 1940, serving on the Mexican border, then over the years, successively, in Costa Rica, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon, Paris, and Madrid. During WWII, he monitored German activity in Latin America. Early in his career he received diplomas from the NATO Defense College and the U.S. Army War College. His final foreign assignment, beginning in 1964, was consul general in Capetown, South Africa. In 1968 he moved to the State Dept. in Washington.

Pete retired in 1971 and moved to Nantucket, where he was director of the Nantucket Land Council. Pete is survived by his wife, Alicia, daughter Patricia, sons Livingston '66 and Peter, stepson Robert Johnson, and three grandchildren, to all of whom the class extends its deep sympathy.

The Class of 1938