Philip Shivell ’43

Phil died Nov. 17, 2012, at his home in Kingsport, Tenn.

Phil joined our class from Dobyns-Bennett High School in Kingsport, where he was on the football team and a member of the band. At Princeton, he majored in biology, was on the freshman polo team, and was a member of Charter Club.

After graduating with honors, Phil attended UPenn’s school of veterinary medicine and the University of Tennessee. He served in the 28th Infantry Division in the European theater and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Medical Administrative Corps.

Phil was chairman of the board of Slip-not Belting Co., and served on many other boards in Kingsport, including the Chamber of Commerce, Community Chest, First Tennessee Bank, Holston Valley Community Hospital, and the Salvation Army.

He was active in the First Presbyterian Church, where he served as a deacon and elder and taught Sunday school for 40 years. Phil loved his farms and animals, especially horses, and had a champion Guernsey dairy herd, from which he raised a national-champion milking cow. He imported the first Simmental bull into Tennessee.

Phil’s wife, Anna, predeceased him. His survivors include four children, six grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.