Royal W. Drews ’27

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Royal died in Maine on Mar. 21, 1997. He was born in Passaic, N.J., and prepared at Passaic HS. He left Princeton after his sophomore year to attend Columbia Dental School, and subsequently practiced orthodonture in New Jersey. He married Daisy MacDonald in 1938, and they had four children: Clara, Ellen, Royal, and Sherry, to whom the class extends its condolences.

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