William Chastain Shelton ’36

Bill, 83, died Nov. 1, 1999 of heart failure in Miami. At Princeton, he majored in mathematics, graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and was a member of Court Club.

He began his 40 year career as a statistician with the Works Progress Administration. During WWII, he worked on the US Army's strategic bombing survey and later was assigned to the Paris office of the Marshall Plan Economic Recovery Program.

In the late 1950s, he was associated with the State of Florida Development Corp. In 1960, he returned to Washington to work for the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 1977, he retired as assistant commissioner of Foreign Labor and Trade. He was recognized as coauthor of an important book, Revolution in Government Statistics, 1926-76.

He was a member of the American Statistical Assn., the Washington Investment Analysts, and the Princeton Alumni Assn. of Washington.

His wife of 57 years, Helen Stewart Higgins died in 1995. He is survived by sons Stuart H. and Alvan C. '80, daughters Jean B. Jaffray and Terry A. Coble, brother James H., and five grandchildren.

The Class of 1936