George Newlin ’52

George cannot be summed up in the 200 words permitted for a memorial by PAW. Nevertheless, he came to the class after Scarsdale (N.Y.) High School, joined Terrace, and majored in music. He roomed — and wrote two Triangle shows — with Ed Streator, Sam Van Culin, Ned Snyder, and Mike Hogan.

In 1952 he went to Yale Law School, then to Vienna to study piano and sing opera there and in Salzburg. He served in the Army Medical Corps from 1956 to 1958. From 1958 to 1965, he was a legal associate at Milbank Tweed, then was counsel and held various management jobs in a number of business organizations until 1988. He married Janine Jordan in 1967, and they later divorced. They had a son, Nicholas, and George later adopted a daughter, Elizabeth Coker.

George served pro bono in a number of public and charity organizations while compiling and publishing immense indices of the persons and places in the works of Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope. He gave much time to his club in New York, the Century Association, and just missed appearing there as Scrooge in his own adaptation of A Christmas Carol when he died Nov. 8, 2016.

For a better account see his entry in The Book of Our History, his incomparable gift to the class.