Tilghman B. Koons ’46

Skip Koons died July 7, 2005, at home in East Hampton, N.Y.

A native of Plainfield, N.J., where he attended high school, he entered Princeton in 1943 to major in the Woodrow Wilson School. During his service in the Navy from 1946 to 1949, he received Russian language training and did a tour in China. Skip received a Fulbright in 1952 and earned a PhD at the Sorbonne in Paris. He worked for the National Security Council in Washington until moving to Paris to work as an attache at the U.S. embassy. He joined Bank of Boston in 1959, shifted to Chase Manhattan Bank in 1962, and later became vice president of overseas expansion for Chase, based in New York.

Skip continued his history studies and collected marine prints from the 18th century. He especially enjoyed sailing.

Skip had no immediate survivors. The class mourns the passing of an engaged internationalist and loyal Tiger.

The Class of 1946