Charles Lewis Henricks Jr. ’27

CHICK DIED Mar. 10, 1991, after a brief illness, in his longtime retirement home, the Canary Islands. His widow, Pat, reports that he was in the hospital only five days, "suffering little pain." He had hoped to add one more to his unbroken series of reunions in June. That record was one of several distinctions, beginning with descent from an early Dutch settler of "New Netherland," now N.Y. State. Another was his masterly administration as president of Charles Henricks, Inc., the family typesetting firm which was a mainstay of many publishing houses. Its business, as StarkeyHenricks, he increased fivefold, on historic Canal Street in N.Y.C.

Chick led a very full life apart from business, as a member of many clubs, as officeholder in Huntington, N.Y., a staunch supporter of the Reformed Dutch and Presbyterian churches, and as a member of Princeton alumni groups, especially as an interviewer for prospective students. One wonders how he found the time for golf, bowling, tennis, and baseball. Reporting for the Sixtieth Year Record Book, he described his retired lifestyle as "an extended holiday with traveling, golf, bowling, and partying at the slightest injunction." One suspects that Chick never had to be enjoined.

We sympathize with his widow, Patience; his sons, Charles Van Dimmers Henricks (Purdue 1958) and Robert Lewis Henricks '71; and his grandchildren, Christopher and Jennifer.

The Class of 1927