Chester H. Philips ’37 *40

Noted architect and many-campaigned WWII veteran-ending up a lt. col.-Chet died May 14, 2000. His first wife, Doris, died in 1989, and he left wife Anne, children Sheryl, Randall, and grandchildren. He had a full military funeral in Saratoga.

He majored in architecture at Princeton and was winner of the Frederick Barnard White Prize and graduated with high honors, leaving him time only for the lacrosse team and Cannon Club. He then took three years of graduate work in architecture at Princeton, earned his master's, and was one of 16 finalists in the national Rome Prize Competition.

He later served five years in the Field Artillery, taking him through numerous campaigns before returning to architecture, doing largely hospitals, schools, colleges, and corporate office buildings. After stints with Frank Grad and Sons and Apple & Seaman, he had his own firm of Phillips, Kaufman and Associates in Morristown, N.J.

The Class of 1937