Harry Ellsworth Newman Jr. ’40

Harry died Aug. 8, 2003, at Lower Cape Fear Hospice Center. He prepared at Lakewood [N.J.] HS and Peddie.

His father, Harry E. Newman 1904, was a pitcher on the Princeton baseball team. Our Harry followed that tradition as a center on the football squad and member of the track team. He also was a member of the yacht club and Cannon Club.

After serving in the Army in WWII, he moved his family to South Carolina. There he raised Black Angus cattle, bred horses, "and dabbled in the Republican scene" while working for Deering Milliken Textile Co. He continued his management career with Milliken and J.P. Stevens in NYC well into his 80s, a tribute, according to the Asbury Park Press, "to his enduring work ethic."

The Press also praised Harry as "a wonderful sailor who enjoyed Barnegat Bay, where he sailed his Class-A Cat Mary Ann." He was a member of the Lavallette [N.J.] Yacht Club, where the family had a summer home.

He was predeceased by his wife, Natalie Rogers, and a daughter, Jill. To his survivors, four sons, Harry III, John, Peter, and Michael; daughters, Dianne McCammon and Mary Ann St. John; 10 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and two sisters, his classmates extend their deep sympathies.

The Class of 1940