Samuel R. Dunnuck Jr. ’40

Sam died Nov. 1, 2002. Except for recent winters spent in Islamorada, Fla., Sam and his wife, Ann, were to enjoy their years in the area of his birth, South Bend, Ind., and nearby Niles, Mich.

He prepared at Lake Forest Academy. While at Princeton he majored in economics, was on the freshman football team, was president of the Glee Club, and was a member of Theatre Intime and Quadrangle Club.

During WWII, Sam was a member of the Army Ordnance Department and was assigned to special services with the Japanese military government and attained the rank of captain. Postwar he entered the family firm, G. E. Meyer and Son, eventually becoming president. In 1987 "at the risk of incurring the wrath of founder great-grandfather Gottfried in the hereafter, I sold out."

Sam also served as a director of a savings and loan association, was active in the local chamber of commerce, the county planning commission, and the watershed commission. Fishing, "frustrating golf," and landscaping his rural homesite "on the banks of the beautiful St. Joseph River" were his interests.

His classmates extend their sympathies to his son, Samuel III; his daughter, Deborah; and Mrs. John M. Dunnuck Jr. w'58.

The Class of 1940