Philip Daniel Myers ’32

Phil died Oct. 29, 2006, at home in Coral Gables, Fla.. He was 97.

He prepared at Blair Academy. At Princeton he was on the freshman baseball, wrestling, and baseball teams and was a member of Cannon Club. He roomed with M.F. West at Blair all four years.

Soon after graduation, Phil joined a paper-container manufacturer in Newark, N.J., and worked there until he began Army service in 1942. Having been in ROTC at Princeton, he entered as a second lieutenant.

During the war he saw action in Morocco, Sicily, France, Belgium, and Germany. Phil received two Bronze Stars and captain's bars.

After the war, Phil and his wife, Virginia, whom he married in 1939, moved to Pasadena, Calif., where he engaged in the real-estate business. He served on the Southern California Princeton Club Committee on Admissions and Scholarships and was active in the Army Reserve. He retired as a brigadier general after moving to Miami in 1962, where he became property manager for a large bank.

He was buried in Arlington (Va.) National Cemetery Jan. 4, 2007, with full military honors. Phil is survived by Virginia; brother Jack Myers '30; sister Mary M. Stubbs; daughter Lura M. Brookins; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren, to whom the class sends its condolences.