Samuel J.R. Froelick ’40

Sam died Oct. 17, 2004.

He was born in Brooklyn and attended Germantown and Phillips Exeter academies. At Princeton, he majored in English and was a member of Cannon Club. He left Princeton at the end of his junior year to join the firm of DeCopper and Doremus.

During World War II he served as a Naval aviator on the carrier USS Cabot in the Pacific. He was awarded several decorations, remaining in the Naval Reserve for many years as a lieutenant commander. After a period as manager of editing for Columbia Broadcasting System on the West Coast, Sam finished college at the University of California in 1961. He taught at the John Burroughs School until his early retirement.

In our 25th-year book, he wrote, "I was in business for many years and felt I had to do something worthwhile, so I became a teacher." After retirement, Sam and his wife, the former Rose Joseph, "moved up into the Sierras, built a home, and lived the simple life." Gardening and watercolor painting were his hobbies; swimming and tennis his active sports interests.

Sam is survived by Rose, his son, Robert, and three granchildren. His classmates offer sincere, if belated, condolences to his family.

The Class of 1940