Newell P. Stepp Jr. ’54

Newell died at his nursing home May 13, 2024.

He attended Braintree (Mass.) High School. At Princeton, he majored in politics, joined Campus Club, and participated in swimming in his freshman and sophomore years. His special interests were in book collecting and squash. He came to love travel while serving in the Army in Germany before graduating with distinction in business studies from Harvard Business School in 1959.

Newell joined Goodyear International in 1960 and combined his career there with his love of travel. He met and married Kay Lindsay in 1961 during his first overseas assignment in Sydney, Australia. Their four children were born during subsequent extended assignments as a finance officer that took them to Singapore, Calcutta, Paris, back to Sydney, the UK, Brussels, and Akron, Ohio, with some intermediate assignments in Sydney. He retired from Goodyear in Akron in 1991 and returned to Sydney.

During Newell’s retirement he enjoyed reading the many books that he continued to collect throughout his adult life. He also studied philosophy at Sydney University. He continued to enjoy travel with his family and friends.

Newell is remembered as a “walking dictionary and encyclopedia,” a man of great intelligence, and love of history, travel, and classical music.

He is survived by his wife, Kaye; their children Philip, Elisa, Kathryn, and Christopher; nine grandchildren; his younger brother, James; and his nieces, Carolyn and Jaime.