Christopher D. Mello ’98

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Christopher Mello perished aboard American Airlines Flight 11 on Sept. 11, 2001. Chris was born in Greenwich, Conn., and grew up in Rye, N.Y. At Princeton, Chris majored in psychology, was vice president of Cottage Club, played rugby, and was a member of Kappa Alpha Order fraternity, and the 21 Club. Chris was an avid golfer and a member of the Apawamis Country Club in Rye and the Rye YMCA. After graduating from Princeton, Chris became a financial analyst at BT Alex Brown, and then moved to Boston to work for Alta Communications.

Chris is survived by his mother and father, Douglas and Ellen Mello, his brother, John Douglas Mello '95, his grandmother, Alice Mello, and an entire Princeton class of extended family and loving friends. You will always be in our hearts and thoughts.

The Class of 1998

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