Mason Cooke Andrews ’40

“Norfolk’s Visionary” was the front-page banner headline in the Virginian-Pilot’s Oct. 14, 2006, story about Mace. “Waterside, Town Point Park, Nauticus, MacArthur Center, Eastern Virginia Medical School: In so much of the city, his hand was present,” was a subsequent headline.

As Matthew Werth ’52 so ably expressed it in a note to the class, “Mason exemplified the best of all good values you could take away from Princeton.”

Mace died Oct. 13, 2006, in Norfolk, Va., the community in which he was born, lived, and practiced. He prepared at Maury High School before attending Princeton. There, he majored in chemistry, earning second group honors, rowed on the freshman crew, was active in intramural athletics, and was a member of Charter Club.

He completed postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. From 1944 to 1946 he was a medical officer on an LST in the Pacific.

He was one of the founders of Eastern Virginia Medical School and served Norfolk as city councilman, mayor, revitalizer of the city’s waterfront, and more.

The Princeton Club of Hampton Roads Oct. 24 annual dinner, planned by club president Jack Carter ’63 and Mace’s wife of 57 years, Sabine, was set to be a celebration of Mace’s life.

To Sabine and to Mace’s daughters, Jean Alston and Mary Mason, we wish to extend our deep sympathies.