Trusten Wheeler Russell ’26

TRUSTY RUSSELL, French scholar and author, died May 10, 1998, at age 91 in the Univ. of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. At Princeton, Trusty was in the Press Club, played the flute in the university orchestra and the orchestra of the Triangle Club, and was a member of Tower. Following graduation, he studied at the Sorbonne and had the unique experience of witnessing the arrival of Charles Lindbergh in Paris at the end of the crossing of the Atlantic in the "Spirit of St. Louis."

Trusty earned a doctorate at Columbia and engaged in research, writing, and teaching, mainly on French subjects. He was the author of numerous articles and several books on Voltaire and taught at Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn College, and Princeton. He was also a director of postdoctorate fellowships under the Fulbright program.

In 1942, Trusty married Mildred Rea, sister of our classmate, Wilton Rea. Mildred died in 1989.

Trusty is survived by two nieces and three nephews, to whom we extend our sympathy,

The Class of 1926