Newton Chapin Jr. ’31

Newt died Nov. 6, 2001, in Sewickley, Pa. He was 92. He attended Shadyside Academy and Choate before Princeton. Following graduation he served in the Civilian Conservation Corps. He then joined Lee C. Moore Corp. until 1940, when he enlisted in the Army. He reached the rank of major before leaving the service in 1944. Newt returned to Moore, where he worked as a director and secretary until 1962. He then joined Marshall Stamping & Culvert Co. and finished his career as chair of Culverts, Inc.

Newt was president of the borough council, Republican Party Committee chair, and member of the Municipal Ambulance Authority. He was a member of the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Club, the Pittsburgh Club, the Duquesne Club, the Allegheny Country Club, the Edgeworth Club, and the Sewickley Hunt Club.

Surviving are his wife, Mariana, his daughter, Sally Levin, his son, William N., and two grandchildren. The class extends its deepest sympathy to the entire family.

The Class of 1931