Samuel Mummey Kennard III ’33

Sam, retired president of the Kennard Corp., died at his summer home in Mantoloking, N.J., on Apr. 2, 2001. He was 90. He lived in St. Louis.

After a brief time as a civil engineer and as a laboratory technician, Sam started the Kennard Corp. in the late 1930s, a manufacturing company of heat-transfer products. He sold the company to the American Air Filter Co. of Louisville in the late 1950s. Sam became vice president of this company for a short time before he retired. He later formed another company, Kennard Industries, of which he remained president until 1990.

In addition to raising a large family, Sam found time for photography, gardening, fishing, and "railroading." He belonged to the Noonday Club and the St. Louis Country Club.

His wife, Mildred, died in 1996. Sam is survived by three daughters, Lucy Bell, Anne Maury, and Mary Perry, and two sons, Samuel M. III and John II, and eight grandchildren. This vigorous, constantly industrious man will be greatly missed by his family and friends.

The Class of 1933