Philip Case ’42

Phil died Dec. 22, 1998, of nonHodgkin's lymphoma at Crestwood Manor Convalescent Center in Whiting, N.J. He retired from the life insurance business in 1968.

Before coming to Princeton Phil attended Hotchkiss School. He left after sophomore year to attend the General Motors Institute, in Flint, Mich. He had planned to major in politics and had joined Court Club before leaving. During the war he spent three and a half years with the AAF as a control tower operator, rising from private to sergeant.

After the war, following a five-year stint in NYC as an airways engineer, with the CAA, Phil returned to Somerville, N.J., his lifelong home, to enter the life insurance business, with Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. He subsequently established his own business as a life insurance broker. He was a member of the Somerville Borough Council, the United Way of Somerset County, and the American Red Cross.

To his widow, Shirley, and his sister, Henrietta Thomson, the class extends its most sincere condolences.

The Class of 1942