Charles Stearns Hall ’45

Charles Hall died Nov. 25, 2007.

Charlie entered Princeton from Mount Hermon and joined Campus Club.

Accelerating his studies at Princeton, he received a degree in politics in 1944 and became an officer in the Navy Amphibious Corps, seeing combat in the Pacific. Since Charlie grew up in China, he was able to co-author a Navy textbook titled Spoken Chinese.

He married Mary Morris in 1945 and joined DuPont in Wilmington, Del. Charlie was recalled to the Navy for the Korean War, after which he joined the CIA as a civilian for almost three decades, spending 11 of those years in Taiwan.

In addition to Mary, Charlie is survived by three daughters, one son, two grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. To them all, the class expresses its sympathy.