Wade Newlin Mack ’51

Wade was born Jan. 26, 1928, in McKeesport, Pa., to Paul Mack 1911 and Mary Newlin Mack.

At Princeton Wade was a history major and a member of Tower Club. Then he served in the Army Intelligence Corps from 1952 to 1955. He later spent a year at Penn earning a master’s degree in history.

In 1954 he married Adele Bertrand Frasse, and for two years he studied English history at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he later earned a Ph.D. He was a professor and a college administrator until his retirement, serving at one time as registrar and assistant dean of the faculty at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. In 1975 he moved to Naples, Fla.

Wade died May 9, 2017, of pneumonia. He is survived by his wife, Patrice Cherney Mack; and his children, Jefferson, Abigail, Rachel, David, Meghan, Shawn, Wade II, and Mary. His brother Joseph ’50 predeceased him.