Ernest Chauncey Savage Jr. ’46

Ernest Savage died Oct. 26, 2007, at Crossland Communities, Pa.

Ernie prepared at Germantown Friends and the Pomfret School before entering Princeton in 1942. He enlisted in the Army, serving as a PFC from 1943 to 1946 and fighting in the Battle of the Bulge. Returning to Princeton in 1946, he joined Ivy Club and graduated magna cum laude in 1948 as a Woodrow Wilson School major. He went on to receive a master's in U.S. history from Harvard.

Ernie taught history and coached baseball and soccer teams at St. Louis Country Day School, Millbrook School, and Tower Hill School in Wilmington, where he was head of the history department. He retired from Tower Hill as assistant headmaster in 1986.

He was justly proud of his direct lineage to Thomas Savage, who arrived in Jamestown, Va., in 1608. Ernie's branch of the family had the longest direct line (through the male side) back to Thomas Savage in the United States.

Ernie's many Princeton relatives included his grandfather, Charles Chauncey Savage 1873; his father, Ernest C. '19; his father-in-law, Frederick T.J. Clement '21; and his wife's grandfather, Augustus Trowbridge, former dean of the graduate school.

His wife of 54 years, Sarah Trowbridge Savage, predeceased him. He is survived by his son, Thomas Littleton Savage; his daughters, Marion Recht, Jane Riley, and Margaret; and two sisters, Jane Roberts and Anne Barnum.