Nicolas A. Oreamuno ’50

Nick, whose father had once been vice president of Costa Rica, died Feb. 1, 2011, in that country.

He came to Princeton from Liceo de Costa Rica and the Hun School. He majored in biology and was a member of Elm Club.

We lost track of Nick after his roommate, Fred Barbour, died suddenly in 1952 from bulbar polio while assigned to West Point as a first lieutenant. In   2000, classmate Al Abbotts located and visited Nick in Costa Rica. It was then Nick explained that he had enjoyed his Princeton experience and had been “adopted” by Fred’s family, but was so upset by Fred’s untimely death that he withdrew from Princeton communications to avoid memories of his roommate.

We wish we knew more about Nick’s life, but we have learned that he joined the Republic Tobacco Co. in Costa Rica in 1961 and was its president and general manager in 1980; that his family owned a large ranch in northwest Costa Rica where tobacco was grown and cattle raised; and that he was a member of the Costa Rican-American Chamber of Commerce.