Newell Brown ’39

Princeton's first director of the office of career and counseling services, and assistant secy. of labor in the Eisenhower administration, Newell died in Keene, N.H., on Apr. 14, 2000. Born in New Hampshire, he had returned there after leaving the Army in 1945 with the rank of lt. col. in the office of strategic services. He purchased a weekly paper, which he published and edited, and soon became an administrative assistant to Gov. Sherman Adams. When the latter became chief of staff to Pres. Eisenhower, Newell followed him to Washington, where he served in the Dept. of Labor until 1961. He then left public office and took a job at a machine tool company in Hartford while working to earn his master's in guidance and counseling from the U. of Hartford. In 1963, he accepted his appointment at Princeton, serving there until he retired in 1980.

Formerly married to Alice Osborn Breese, Newell is survived by their five children and seven grandchildren, as well as by his two brothers and two sisters, with all of whom we celebrate his life.

The Class of 1939