Nicholas Carroll Chubb ’44

Nick, a dedicated physician/psychiatrist and a member of an extensive Princeton family, died Oct. 20, 2008, in a church retirement community in Asheville, N.C.  

Born in Pittsburgh, he prepped at Sewickley Academy and the Hotchkiss School. At Princeton, he roomed with George Gibbs, majored in physics, played freshman football and rugby, and was a member of Gateway Club. After service in the Army Signal Corps, he earned a medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh and had a residency in psychiatry at Warren State Hospital in North Warren, Pa. He was a staff psychiatrist at Penn State University and at a veterans hospital in Augusta, Ga., before retiring in 1985 to North Carolina, where he remained active in hiking, tai chi, swimming, and church and Bible-study groups.  

Nick’s survivors include his wife of 55 years, Betty Lou; two sons, Nicholas C. Jr. and Jonathan F.; a daughter, Anne C.; a brother, Talbot A. ’45; two nephews, Charles F. Chubb III ’73 and Scott R. Chubb ’75; a niece, Marianne E. “Mimi” Chubb ’06; a granddaughter; and two great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his brother, Charles F. Chubb Jr. ’41. Our sincere condolences go to his entire family.