Chapin Hawley ’37

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Chapin Hawley of Cincinnati and Newport, Ky., died of complications following surgery Nov. 8, 2004. He was 88.

Chapin graduated from Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. At Princeton he was a member of the freshman tennis team and the '36 Triangle show chorus, and graduated with honors in biology.

In 1942, he graduated from the University of Virginia Medical School and then interned at Cincinnati General Hospital. He spent three years in the 49th Field Hospital in the European theater, separating as a captain. He practiced radiology from 1950 to 1985, both at Cincinnati's Christ Hospital and in private practice.

He is survived by his longtime companion, Eve Taylor; his three daughters, Susan Kelly, Robin Wood, and Courtney Newell; and eight grandchildren. His wife, Ann Powell Hawley, died in 1973. The class offers its condolences on the death of this fine man.

The Class of 1937

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