Kenneth Chadbourne Hewitt ’35

KEN HEWITT, who was born in Pittsburgh, died in his sleep, at the age of 80, Dec. 17, 1992, at Longwood Retirement Community in Oakmont, Penn. He was a senior VP. of Mellon Bank in charge of the multibilliondollar trust department when he took early retirement in 1972. He joined the bank in 1937, and his career there was interrupted by WWII, in which he served for three years as a naval lieutenant, also teaching celestial navigation. He spent the balance of his career with Mellon.

Ken came to Princeton from Mercers6urg Academy, where he was on the tennis team and in the Cum Laude and Literary societies. At Princeton, he roomed in Holder Hall with the late Fred Greger. A history major, Ken earned second group honors. He was on the business board of the TIGER for three years. From Princeton, he went to Harvard Business School and earned an M.B.A. In his early years, Ken played a lot of tennis and squash and then became an avid golfer.

His lovely wife of 40 years, Mary Seaver Hewitt, and his son, Frank, predeceased him. At the time of his death, he was engaged to Helen Colwell, who survives and to whom the Class expresses its sympathy.

The Class of 1935