Gardner Wiley Munro ’51

[node:field-image-collection:0:render]Chip was born May 9, 1929, to Dana and Margaret Wiley Munro. His father was the Tod Professor of Public Affairs at Princeton from 1939 to 1961.

Chip came to us from Deerfield. At Princeton he majored in history and was a member of Dial Lodge. He joined the Air Force in February 1951, earned a Princeton degree in 1952, married Corinne Cronin in 1954, and was discharged from the service in 1955. He earned a master’s degree from the Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work.

He headed an international adoption agency (ISS) in Seoul, South Korea, and then served refugee-relief services in Saigon, South Vietnam, before coming to the Council for Community Services in Rhode Island as associate and then executive director. He retired from the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families after 19 years as a clinical social-work supervisor in 2004. Chip did volunteer social work in Haiti, where years before his father had been a State Department special envoy.

Chip died Feb. 22, 2018. He is survived by his wife, Frances Racine Munro; his children, Robin Perez, Drew, Jennifer, Ralph, and Abigail Munro-Hulley and their families; and his sister Margaret Griffin. He was predeceased by his first wife, Corinne; and sister Carol Monas.