Walter Schaff Jr. ’44

Wally Schaff died on Jan. 11, 2000, six years after he had written in our 50-year book, "By-pass heart operations are all the rage, so I joined the club in 1990, but now I know I shall live close to forever since I take an aspirin once a day." In fact, cancer is what did him in, but not before he had a final martini and pipe smoke at the hospice care unit near his home in Youngstown, Ohio.

He came to Princeton from Exeter, following his father '09, uncle Philip '06, and cousins Philip H. '42 and Charles B. '45. He was a member of the Yacht Club and Cap and Gown. He roomed with Alford, Barr, Freeman, Fentress, LeBlond, and Lovelace in Campbell, and later with Watson Dabney '45.

Wally enlisted in the Army in Aug. 1942, serving with the third armored in Europe until discharged, in 1945, with five campaign ribbons and a Presidential Unit Citation. He worked in sales in Youngstown for Madison Bionics Chemical. He was pres. of the Princeton Alumni of greater Youngstown during the 1960s, and a longtime usher at the First Presbyterian Church.

Wally was predeceased by his wife, Harriet Wick, and his two sisters. The class extends its sympathy to his three daughters, Louise, Emily, and Anne, and to his two grandchildren.

The Class of 1944