C. William Neuhauser ’48

Bill was born and grew up in Washington, D.C. He was a founder and leader of companies in both investment securities and ocean shipping.

After two years at Princeton in the Navy V-12 program, he graduated from George Washington University in 1949 and joined the Marines. He joined our classmate George Ferris in his family firm in Washington, D.C.

Early in the 1950s he left Ferris to be the founding partner of his own investment firm. In the 1960s he became president of Industrial Opportunity, a subsidiary of Sea-Land Services. At Sea-Land he was instrumental in helping several other companies launch both manufacturing and distribution operations in Puerto Rico.

In 1970 Bill became a vice president of Sea-Land, then an executive in several other ocean shipping organizations, and for two years he was chairman of the shipping industry’s National Maritime Council. He also was a longtime faculty member at the Maine Maritime Academy.

Bill and Joan, his late wife of 46 years, had two children, Charles W. ’74 and Anna L. Neuhauser, and a grandson. Upon marriage to his second wife, Marie, who survives him, Bill became a stepfather of four and step-grandfather of eight. He died March 9, 2017, at an assisted-living facility in Bethesda, Md. He was 91.