Charles Joel Winton ’50

Chuck Winton died at his home in Tiburon, Calif., of a brain tumor on Jan. 2, 2000. He was 74.

Chuck prepared for Princeton at Blake School, where he played football, hockey, and baseball. He then spent three years in the army.

He followed his grandfather and father to Princeton, but stayed only a year. He graduated from Macalester College and subsequently received an MBA from Stanford.

Chuck joined the family business, Winton Lumber Company, in Minneapolis.

A champion sailor as a youth on the lakes of his native Minnesota, Chuck continued this interest after moving to California in 1977. He won several sailing championships for the San Francisco Yacht Club, becoming its commodore in 1983.

Survivors include his wife, Marie, two sons, Charles and Michael, and a daughter, Anne Marsh, to whom the class sends its deepest sympathies.

The Class of 1950