Earl D. Chambers ’48

Earl D. Chambers ’48 died in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 1, 2014. He graduated from Norwalk High School in 1943 and immediately volunteered for service in the U.S. Navy, where he joined the V-12 program at Dartmouth, took communications training at Harvard and became a communications officer. His ship, the USS Cruise, was en route to Japan for mine sweeping duties when the war ended in August of 1945. Earl returned to Dartmouth, graduating in 1948 with an A.B. in economics. He went directly to Wall Street with Manufacturers Hanover Bank, the predecessor of JPMorgan Chase, and attended the NYU Graduate School of Business. In 1950 he married Nancy. In 1953 they moved to Providence, where Earl worked for the Rhode Island Trust Bank before joining the trust department of Marine Midland Bank as vice president and becoming a chartered financial analyst in 1965. He then worked for Marine Midland’s New York office and AMICA Mutual Insurance Co. before he managed public and private investments for a Providence family for more than 17 years. At age 83 he and two partners founded Newport Investment Management, LLC, where he served as the equities advisor. Earl also served on the boards or investment committees of numerous charitable and nonprofit organizations, usually leading investment oversight. He enjoyed the shore—swimming, clamming, crabbing, boating, fishing for bluefish off Block Island and crewing with a friend on the inland waterway. Earl is survived by his wife, Nancy, daughters Sarah Ann and Lydia ’82 and their husbands and children.