Melville Church Blair ’45

Mel prepared for Princeton at St. Paul’s, following in the footsteps of his father, Lawrence 1912, and preceding his brother, Lawrence Jr. ’46. As he had done at St. Paul’s, Mel excelled in squash and tennis, making the varsity teams in both sports. He joined Ivy Club.  

His war service was as a radio technician with the Marine Air Corps. After the war he joined the sales department of Pittsburgh Plate Glass in Pittsburgh, his hometown. By our 25th reunion he had moved to Scarborough, Maine, where he still lived at the time of our 40th reunion.  

Thereafter the class and the University lost touch with Mel, perhaps because he did not return to Princeton after his military service and supplied no information except his address in Maine.  

His brother Lawrence died in 1999 and the class was unable to contact any family members to supply details for this memorial.