Samuel Chapin Lawson ’38

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Chape died Oct. 12, 2014, at age 99.

He prepared for Princeton at Choate School, where he played football, hockey, and baseball and was stage manager for the Dramatic Club.

At Princeton, he majored in economics. Chape was on the freshman hockey team and a member of Cottage and the 21 Club. During his freshman and sophomore years, he roomed at 92 Blair with J. Christopher Meyer Jr. During junior year, he lived at 51-53 1879 Hall with Meyer, J.C. Pogue Jr., and W.R. Barrett. Chape left Princeton in the winter of his junior year and took a job with Campbell-Ewald Advertising in Detroit.

Chape eventually became advertising director for Time Warner Inc., a position from which he retired in 1978. No further information was available about family survivors, to whom the class normally would extend its sympathy.

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