Netzer Eugene Luthi ’38

Binx Luthi died July 4, 1998, in San Marino, Calif. He was a widower and had no children. Two first cousins, Raymond Luty and Jane Littleton, were his closest surviving relatives.

At Princeton Binx majored in economics and was a member of the Glee Club and of Cloister Inn. After graduation, following in the footsteps of his father, who was passenger agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad, Binx joined the Union Pacific Railroad passenger traffic (sales) department in Chicago. Later, he served that company in Omaha, NYC, Denver, and L.A., where he became general passenger agent. During WWII, his business career was interrupted by military service as an Air Force transportation officer. He attained the rank of major before his discharge in 1945, the year he married MayGordon Latham.

After his retirement in 1977, Binx remained active as deacon and trustee of his local Methodist church, and as a director and president for seven years of the L.A. Travelers' Aid Society. According to a second cousin, Robert Luty, the duty he assumed that he most enjoyed was serving for 21 years as secretary-treasurer of the SKAL Club, an international fraternity of top sales executives in the travel industry. Just shortly before his death, though somewhat infirm, Binx attended a SKAL Club ceremony, celebrating its 50th year, at which he received a standing ovation.

The Class of 1938