Charles C. Emmons ’27

Word has just been received from the Office of Alumni Records that Charles C. Emmons died Nov. 28, 1996, in Baltimore of pneumonia.

Chuck came to us from Gilman. At Princeton he was a member of the freshman basketball squad and Quadrangle Club. He roomed in Holder Hall with Kenny Egerton and G. W Scarlett. After graduation he worked for Wm. E. Hooper & Sons Co., manufacturers of cotton duck, first in Philadelphia and then in Baltimore, where he became production manager in 1933, general manager in 1935, and a director in 1941.

In 1941 he married Jean Slaughter, who, by a previous marriage, had two sons, Richard and D. Graham Slaughter '60. His own son, Charles C. Emmons Jr. '66, was born in 1944.

Chuck retired in 1965 and lived in Ruxton, Md., where he was a trustee of the Roland Park Presbyterian Church, a director of the Thomasville Stone and Lime Co., and a member of the Baltimore Country and L'Hirondelle clubs. In 1965 he became the first director of development for Gilman, a post he held for about 10 years.

He is survived by his wife, son Charles Jr., stepson Graham, 10 grandchildren, and two great-granddaughters. To them, the class extends its sympathy in the loss of a most genial classmate.

The Class of 1927