C. Chase Porter ’43

Chase died Dec. 22, 2006, of complications from Alzheimer's disease at his retirement home in Potomac Falls, Va. He was 84.

Born in Los Angeles, he graduated from Los Angeles High School. At Princeton he played freshman football, joined Elm Club, and graduated as a chemical engineering major. He served five years in the Navy during and after World War II, with assignments to secure and safeguard oil supplies in the Persian Gulf. He retired from the Navy Reserve as a commander in 1969.

Chase joined Socony Mobil Oil Co. (now ExxonMobil) in 1948. He moved from Lawrenceville, N.J., to Virginia in the late 1970s when Mobil transferred its headquarters. He retired from Mobil in 1982 as vice president for wholesale lubricants. He enjoyed travel, golf, and tennis, and was active in VFW Post 8469 in Fairfax, Va.

Chase married Dorothy Kelley in 1953. She died in 1988. He is survived by his second wife, Mary Ann Porter; two daughters from his first marriage, Susan Porter Hicks and Kathryn Kelley Porter; three grandchildren; two stepchildren; and four step-grandchildren. His Princeton roommate, Ed Essertier, gave the eulogy at a Jan. 11 service in Potomac Falls. Chase was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.