Peter Thomson Chew ’46

Pete Chew died of a heart attack in Washington, D.C., July 16, 2006. He lived there since 1954, working as a reporter and independent writer.

Born in New Rochelle, N.Y., and a Choate School graduate, Pete entered Princeton in June 1942. He soon left for duty with the American Field Service in Africa, the Mideast, and Italy. He returned to college to play 150-pound football and hockey and to head the revived Daily Princetonian.

Working as a reporter for several news-papers and for NASA, Pete also wrote a book on the Kentucky Derby. In 1966, he went to war zones in Vietnam for The Observer. His book, Inner World of the Middle-Aged Man, won the 1977 American Psychological Media Award.

He is survived by Virginia, his wife of 54 years; his children, Elizabeth Rider, Peter Jr., and Benjamin '84; and two grandchildren. To them, the class expresses deep sympathy on the loss of a dynamic Tiger.