Cedric Philipp, a longtime international executive for the Wyeth pharmaceutical firm, died July 18, 2013. He was 91.
Born in Chile, Philipp came to the United States as a child, studied at Columbia University, joined the Army in 1943, and remained in the service in Berlin until October 1946. He completed his Columbia bachelor’s degree in 1949. After a year at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, he resigned in 1950 for financial reasons.
Philipp then accepted a job offer from the State Department’s Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. In 1953, he began working in the pharmaceutical industry, first with Schering Corp., and then in 1957 for Wyeth. He was an executive for Wyeth International for 30 years, working in 44 countries. In 1987, he became an independent consultant and retired in 2004.
As a volunteer with the International Executive Service Corps, he had extended assignments assisting pharmaceutical companies in Mexico and Uruguay. A loyal Princetonian, he was a well-liked class agent from 1999 to 2013 for the Wilson School’s Annual Giving campaigns, to which he was a regular donor.
Philipp is survived by Sue, his wife of 60 years; three children, including Julia ’81; and three grandchildren.
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