Maurice Pate Rehm ’42

Bud Rehm died of heart failure Sept. 18, 2007, in Sebring, Fla.

Bud came to Princeton from Watertown (N.Y.) High School. His father, Harold Rehm ’15, an Army colonel, moved the family from one post to another as Bud grew up. An economics major at Princeton, Bud was an outstanding long-distance runner, captain of the cross-country team, and a three-year letterman in track.

After graduation Bud joined the Air Corps, serving as a bomber pilot in the Pacific theater and remaining in the Air Force for 20 years. Assigned as air attaché to the embassy in Holland, he conducted covert operations behind the Iron Curtain at considerable risk to himself. He retired from the Air Force in 1965 as a lieutenant colonel.

For the next 10 years Bud worked as a project manager for Honeywell and then Douglas Aircraft. From 1975 on he immersed himself in a series of independent projects, consistent with his optimistic and freewheeling nature. Bud took great pride in having served his country and in his family, especially his wife, the late June Adams, whom he married in 1942 after a whirlwind courtship, followed by three years apart during the war.

To his sons, Maurice “Rush” ’73 and Robert; his daughter, Vicki Owens; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren; the class sends its condolences.