Charles A. Dana Jr. ’37

Entrepreneur and modest achiever Charlie Dana, trout fisherman and ardent Princetonian, died May 9, 2001, in an auto accident while crossing the street in NYC.

He divorced his first two wives, Marion "Bunny" Turrell and Eleanor Waters Langhorne. In 1966 he married Norma Kendall. He had three children, seven grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

At St. Paul's, Charlie was into golf, club football, music, and baseball. He majored in economics at Princeton and was on the freshman football and squash squads and a member of Cloister, but left in Feb. 1936. He then traveled extensively and was in the brokerage business, with Jesup & Lamont. He also did a bit of farming and was part owner of a restaurant in Morristown, N.J..

He was 4F but participated in the state guard for three years and as an air-raid warden. He was assistant treasurer of Arthur G. Blair, which converted and armed ships for the U.S.

He tried fashion and business magazines; with his friend Lee Ault funded Of Thee I Sing; and was president of Just One Break, an employment agency for the physically handicapped, which in 10 years placed more than 8,000 disabled persons in jobs. He founded the Dana Foundation and served on many other charitable endeavors.

The Class of 1937