Victor A. Oswald Jr. ’33

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Victor, also known to some as Ozzie, died Aug. 9, 2003. He was 93.

He was born Dec. 17, 1909. He attended Franklin and Marshall Academy and then Princeton, where he graduated junior year Phi Beta Kappa and as valedictorian of his class. He received his doctorate in German from Columbia.

Victor married Nina Chaitins in 1931. He was a professor emeritus of the Department of Germanic Languages at UCLA.

Victor was preceded in death by his wife and one granddaughter. He is survived by two daughters, six grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. He will be missed.

The Class of 1933

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