Charles B. Clement Jr. ’62

We lost a loyal classmate on Sept. 14, 2002, when Charlie succumbed to a ruptured ulcer. Unstintingly gracious, warm, funny, religious, altogether human, Charlie was also cantankerous, stubborn, complex, and sometimes dark of mood. Most of all, he was independent and utterly indifferent to the crowd — what it thought, what it did, whom it honored.

Charlie majored in religion and English, then studied law at the Universities of Virginia and Heidelberg. Following work in Europe, he found his career at the Chicago Board of Trade, initially as a trader and later providing legal advice. His lifelong devotion was to writing, starting with poetry at Princeton and blossoming into a series of published and to-be-published works of fiction.

Charlie was superb to his numerous friends: Phil and Arnold Weinstein, Larry Darnell, Dave Rosenbloom, Joe Lundy, Bob Appel, and Rick Smith, to name a Princeton few. At every stage he possessed an unfailing capacity to find (or if necessary, make) life interesting, and thus, he made it more interesting for others.

The Class of 1962