Samuel W. Pringle Jr. ’52

Sam came to Princeton from Mercersburg Academy. He majored in SPIA, joined Terrace and roomed with Jim Eakin.

He served on the Prince business board and the Bric-a-Brac editorial board and participated in the choir and Westminster Fellowship.

Sam was in the class of ’55 at Harvard Law School. After assisting federal Judge Joseph P. Wilson, Sam joined his father’s firm in 1957 for three years, then practiced until 1997 in U.S. Steel’s law department. There followed work as a real-property attorney for Sprint Communications until 2005.

He gave years of service to the Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh and the Masonic Lodge of Dormont. His clubs were Longue Vue and St. Clair Country.

Sam died May 11, 2014. To his wife, Barbara, and children Marybeth, S. Wilson III, Robert E. Walley IV, and Philip, the class sends sympathy.