Dean W. Mathey ’50

Dean died Nov. 5, 2017, in New York City, where he lived most of his life after graduating in 1951.

He attended Princeton Day School, which his father, Dean 1912, founded; and Deerfield, where he was a three-sport athlete. At Princeton he majored in English, belonged to Cottage Club, and played varsity tennis.

After graduation he worked for the Empire Trust Co. in New York City until 1954. He then divided his time between a charitable trust and his earlier love of tennis. He won the U.S. Interscholastic Doubles Championship with his brother Don ’51. He hit the circuit and wrote at the time of our 25th that he “achieved some success.” Leaving tournament tennis, he became executive secretary of the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association.

He continued to play friendly tennis, along with pursuing his hobbies of chess and dancing. In 1999 he was inducted into Princeton Day School’s Athletic Hall of Fame.

Dean never married. His younger brothers, Don and David, predeceased him.