Chandler Robbins ’42

Chan died on Apr. 22, 1989, at Whitehall Manor Nursing Home, in Hyannis, after a long illness. At the time of his death, he was a retired partner from the investment firm of M. Schapiro and Co., in N.Y.C.

Chan came to Princeton from Choate, roomed with Hank Vezin, and majored in economics. He was in London during the Blitz and, after graduation, served in the Army. He was a member of the occupying forces that eventually led to the liberation of Paris. At the end of WWII, he worked in Paris for three years for the State Dept. He then returned to the U.S. and earned his master's degree from Columbia in 1949. After spending most of his career in the investment business, he retired to Cape Cod in 1958.

A direct descendant of John Howland, who sailed on the Mayflower, Chan was named for the pastor of the first church in the Plymouth Colony. He also was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. To his widow, Fay, his stepsons, Bob and Nathaniel Parkinson, and his stepdaughter, Martha, the class extends its sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1942