Samuel H. Waughtel ’37

Constant communicator with classmates and Princeton associations, swimmer Sam Waughtel died Dec. 15, 1999. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Mary, sons Peter and Steven, daughters Melissa and Elizabeth, and seven grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren, all of whom surrounded him with love in his hospice.

At Moses Brown School, Sam was on the football, baseball, and swimming teams as well as the dramatic and publications boards. At Princeton, he majored in biology, graduated with honors, and was on the swimming team and manager of Campus Club.

After a year of machine design with the Rhode Island School of Design, he started a successful career with Brown and Sharpe Mfg. Co. in 1942. Working in national defense, Sam was a department foreman, building 9,000 pumps a month for the Navy's new ships and submarines, and later became assistant to the v.p. He then joined C. O. Hoffacker Co., design­ing and manufacturing guided missiles. He also served as treas. and worked on the administrative council of the Rhode Island branch of the Natl. Metal Trades Assn., and was pres. of the Rhode Island Alumni Assn. and Princeton Club of Rhode Island.

In 1993, he had various medical problems and was called, by his surgeon, The Princeton Tiger With Nine Lives.