James Edmund Walsh ’34

JIM WALSH, a resident of Daytona Beach since 1969, when he moved his family from Long Island to Florida for the sake of his son's health, died Feb. 6, 1991. He had suffered from Alzheimer's disease. His son, Grover Clarence, suffering from cystic fibrosis, died in 1988 at the age of 31.

Jim Walsh was with Grumman Aircraft in Bethpage, N.Y., from 194869, when he took early retirement. He and his wife, Erva jean (EJ.) Vosburgh Walsh, a 1946 graduate of Cornell, bought a motel, The Dolphin, in Mar. 1969, just in time for the influx of college students on their Easter vacation. "We've been busy as hootowls," Jim wrote at the time. "But a nicer bunch of kids you wouldn't want to meet."

With the gas crunch in late 1973 Jim and E.J. sold the motel, and he went to work for another one, family owned and operated. "Meeting different kids of people," he said, "keeps it interesting. I expect to stay until further notice."

Surviving besides EJ. is a daughter, Gail. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934