Chester L. Nourse Jr. ’40

Chet died June 23, 2006, at Mease Continuing Care Hospital in Dunedin, Fla.

After attending Phillips Andover Academy, he majored in politics at Princeton, where he was on the freshman golf team and a member of Cannon Club. He received an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Chet was a Navy veteran who served from 1942 to 1946 and remained in the Navy Reserve as a lieutenant. He and his wife, Barbara, lived in Dunedin from 1956 until 1962 while he was vice president of the First National Bank as well as president of the Dunedin Rotary Club. He was an avid golfer, becoming Dunedin Country Club champion.

In 1962, he moved his family back to Massachusetts, where he became president and CEO of the Lynn Five Cents Savings Bank and president of the Savings Institute Marketing Society of America. Upon retirement, the Nourses moved to Dunedin, becoming very active in local affairs.

Chet was a loyal Princetonian, serving as class AG agent and secretary-treasurer of the Princeton Alumni Association of the Florida West Coast.

He is survived by Barbara, his wife of 56 years; their daughters, Alison Miller and Victoria Cudahy; four grandchildren; and his sister, Virginia Salomon. To them, his classmates wish to extend sincere sympathies.