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"Buff" was a victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center tragedy. He worked as a managing director of Sandler, O'Neill & Partners on the 104th floor of 2 WTC.
Strong and lasting friendships marked Buff's entire life when he was growing up in Demarest, N.J., and attending Bergen Catholic HS, at Princeton, and later in Greenwich, Conn. Buff lived life to the utmost at Princeton. He studied politics, played varsity golf, and was a unanimously popular member of Cottage Club. Save for a few gray hairs, he showed that things hadn't changed at the 25th reunion last June, by joyfully renewing friendships, and even winning the alumni golf tournament.
Buff's success at life showed not only through his friendships and career on Wall Street, but also through an incredibly close and committed family. Buff's wife, Susan, and daughter Chloe, parents Bob '47 and Mariann, sisters Priscilla Stumm '72 and Lili Tatsuno, together with extended family that includes nieces Ali Stumm Pogorelec '99 and Amanda Stumm '01, cousins Eric Wohlforth '54 and Charles Wohlforth '86, and father-in-law Dominic Telesco '52, are lasting proof to the power and strength of family. Buff's wonderful spirit will continue through them.
New York Times Portraits of Grief
Susan Telesco, a Vassar woman, had been invited to a football game by a Princeton man, but she found herself hoping Martin Wohlforth, another Princeton guy whom everybody called Buff, would be there. He was. They would have celebrated their 21st wedding anniversary on Sept. 13.
Susan's memories of Sept. 11 are that she had gone to her Junior League office in Greenwich, Conn., of which she is president, and heard that the second tower, where her husband worked, had been attacked. Trying to drive home, so she could be found, she pulled over and threw up.
Mr. Wohlforth, 45, was a managing director in the bond department of Sandler O'Neill, on the 104th floor. He caught the 5:55 a.m. train to New York, or on rare occasions the 6:05, but was always home for dinner with Susan and their daughter Chloe, now 16.
"I have a picture of him holding our daughter for the first time in the hospital with a mask on," Susan said. "Playing with her on the beach in Nantucket, his pants are rolled up and wet, she is 7 or 8, and he is tossing her a ball. I've got pictures of him carving pumpkins with her every year. Every year, when they carved their pumpkins, homely or gorgeous, and they were never gorgeous. I knew he loved me very, very much. I was very secure in our marriage. We were blessed."
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