Sidney Mathews ’33

Sid died at his home in Palm Beach, on May 21, 2002. He was 90.

Sid graduated from Salisbury School. After he left Princeton, he joined the Commercial National Bank in NYC, which later became the Bankers Trust Co. He specialized in trusts and estates. During WWII he was a major stationed in India, in the Southeast Asia Command, where he assisted in the US Lend Lease program. He was awarded the Bronze Star.

He retired from Bankers Trust in 1974 and became chairman of the board of the Kohler and Campbell Piano Co. He moved to Palm Beach in 1979, where he headed the local office of the investment firm Roanoke Asset Management. Sid was an honorary trustee of the Children's Aid Society in NYC.

He is survived by his wife, Phyllis. He also is survived by his first wife, Dorothea Smith, and their three daughters, and by a fourth daughter from his second marriage to Rita White in 1956. Sid was an industrious man who never seemed to retire. We will miss him.

The Class of 1933