Royal H. Gibson Jr. ’64

Chip died April 4, 2018, in Charleston, S.C.

Chip grew up in Rumson, N.J., and attended Rumson public schools before entering the Lawrenceville School. At Lawrenceville, he managed the basketball team and was a member of the House Council and the science and Spanish clubs.

At Princeton he majored in basic engineering and the plastics program. He wrote his thesis on “Blow Molding of Thermoplastics” under Professor Maxwell. He participated in lightweight crew, serving as captain of the freshman squad and junior varsity coxswain in his sophomore and junior years. He was also a member of the Flying Club all four years. He was a member of Charter Club and lived there his last two years.

Chip initially pursued a career in computer technologies manufacturing, which kept him occupied for 18 years. Then he and his wife, Kimberly, whom he had married in 1965, took their four children on a two-and-a-half-year cruise from Maine to the Caribbean. They then settled in Charleston, where Chip ended up teaching high school math for 18 years.

Chip is survived by Kimberly and three of their children, Andrew, Jeffrey and Margaret, to whom the class extends its condolences. One child, Amy, predeceased Chip.