David S. Chapin ’47

Dave died June 27, 2015, in Avon, Conn.

He prepared at Kingswood School in West Hartford, Conn. Dave entered Princeton in the summer of 1943 and served with naval aviation during World War II, including a six-month stretch in Panama. He returned to Princeton in 1946 and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1948.

Dave joined the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co., working in marketing in the Hartford, Syracuse, Philadelphia, and New York branches. In 1961, David was loaned to the American Foreign Insurance Association in New York to help establish the facilities for underwriting boiler and machinery insurance risks overseas. In 1970 he served as secretary/treasurer of the Casualty and Surety Club of New York. His last assignment was handling development, communications, and technical underwriting in the home office before retiring in 1990.

Dave is survived by his three nieces, several in-laws, and his fiancée, Marian Hurlbut.