Newton B. Schott Jr. ’64

Newt died Nov. 19, 2024, in Montclair, N.J.

He grew up in New Jersey and came to Princeton from Newark Academy, where he was a class and student council officer and the newspaper’s business manager. At Princeton, Newt majored in economics, ate at Tower, and wrote for the Bric-a-Brac, becoming executive editor junior year.

After Princeton, he earned a J.D. at Columbia Law School and practiced corporate and securities law for 13 years with a small NYC law firm, followed by 26 years as general counsel and executive VP at Thomson McKinnon, Allianz Global Investors, and related entities.

Newt was active in Montclair, serving for 17 years on the boards of trustees of Montclair Kimberley Academy (seven as president) and the Montclair Art Museum (three as president). He was also an elder, and finance committee chair of the Presbyterian Church of Upper Montclair.

Newt and Toni, his wife of 58 years and “the love of his life,” spent summers in Chautauqua, N.Y. The class extends its condolences to Toni and their two children.