Tremper Longman Jr. ’45

Tremp died Nov. 22, 2006.

Tremp prepared for Princeton at Exeter. At Princeton he was captain of the squash team and a member of Tiger Inn and the Right-Wing Club. His war service was with the 89th Division, which saw combat in France and Germany. Returning to Princeton, he earned a bachelor’s in history in 1948 and joined the Studebaker Corp., for which he became district sales manager in Columbus, Ohio. In 1951 he married Mary Jane “Mernie” Stevenson, a graduate of Ohio State University, and they had a son and two daughters. Tremp continued in the motor-vehicle business, switching to trucking with Truck Transport Inc. of St. Louis as its business sales manager.

He and Mernie retired to Sarasota, Fla., where he took up racing in earnest “as the slowest member of a national-champion team” from Tampa. Until the end, Tremp continued to enjoy squash and tennis, although he noted that he could no longer defeat his children.

In addition to Mernie, Tremp is survived by his son, Tremper III; his daughters, Linda and Lisa; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. The class extends sympathy to all.