Elbert Haring Chandor ’42

"Red" Chandor, 82, one of our most colorful classmates and descendant of alums beginning with the Class of 1784, died Dec. 22, 2003, in NYC.

After preparation at South Kent [Conn.] School and a year at Hamilton College, he earned honors in modern languages at Princeton, tutored French and Greek, and was a member of Cloister Inn. An Air Force lieutenant during WWII, Red worked as a navigator.

A well-traveled ladies' man in the international jet set, Red had a peripatetic career as a public relations executive, stockbroker, financial entrepreneur, and editor and writer in social commentary magazines. His club memberships included Union, River, Princeton Club of New York, St. Nicholas Society, Shinnecock Hills Golf, Meadow, and the Bathing Corp. of Southampton.

Red was, to say the least, an energetic and persistent family man, having had the companionship of five prominent wives and four attractive children. He was most proud of his pre-Revolutionary ancestors: the Harings (Dutch), the Mulfords (English), and Count Laslo Fulop Chandor of Budapest.

To his surviving children, Cary Savant and Allaire Stallsmith, and to his six grandchildren, the class expresses its sincere sense of loss of this exemplar of the good life.

The Class of 1942