John Chester Botts Jr. ’34

Chet Botts, a resident of St. Petersburg, Fla., since 1973, died at Bayfront Medical Center on Mar. 26. A retired advertising executive with service at Foote Cone & Belding, J. Walter Thompson, McCann-Erickson, and the Al Paul Lefton Agency, he tried to prove his dislike for the word "retired," as he once wrote, by establishing a marketing and advertising consultant business in Florida and lecturing at local colleges. In addition, he was a former pres. of the Anthonians at St. Anthony's Hospital for eight years, a former director of the United Way, and a 20-year member of Intl. Service Corps and served in Sri Lanka and India. "In any spare time," he wrote not long ago, he and his wife, the former Priscilla "Peggy" Fenner (College of New Rochelle '36), were both "avid tennis partners."

Chet married Peggy in 1939, and they lived in Bronxville, N.Y., for nearly 25 years before moving to St. Petersburg. Chet was a gov. of the Bronxville Field Club and of the New York Metropolitan Squash Racquets Assn. He was the eighth-ranked squash player in NYC.

Surviving, besides Peggy, are two sons, John C. III and Theodore P., a daughter, Priscilla B. Ditchfield, six grandchildren, and a great-grandchild. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934