Charlie, our New York State Supreme Court justice, died Nov. 21, 2013, in Elmira, N.Y., his hometown. He was 98. His father, Charles Sr., had been a Chemung County Court judge.

Charlie left Princeton in the middle of his junior year to attend Cornell. At Princeton, he excelled in sports, playing on the freshmen football team and earning a letter in lacrosse. At Cornell, he stayed on to earn a law degree in 1942. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant on the destroyer USS Dennis J. Buckley in both the Atlantic and Pacific.

In 1948, he joined the Buck law firm and spent most of his time in litigation, which he found “fascinating.” In 1972, he was elected to the New York State Supreme Court. He served until mandatory retirement at 76, then continued as a judicial-hearing officer and with the Civil Appeals Settlement Program of the appellate division in Albany, from which he retired on his 91st birthday. In 1992 he was honored when the Supreme Court named its law library after him.

To his wife, Nancy; children Caroline, Penny, Charles III (a retired U.S. chief magistrate judge), Slater, and Mark, and the extended family, the class sends its sympathy.

Undergraduate Class of 1939