Question From A Reader - June 25, 2011
Reader’s Question: I enjoyed Rob Dinerman’s article/obituary about Charles Brinton (posted on June 15th) and was wondering if you knew what he did professionally after graduating from Princeton in 1942.
Rob Dinerman Responds: Mr. Brinton won both the Intercollegiate Individual championship and the U. S. Nationals in both his junior and senior years at Princeton, and if he had accomplished that impressive double-feat in modern times he likely would have promptly joined the pro squash tour, as Julian Illingworth did when he graduated from Yale in 2006 after winning the 2005 and 2006 S. L. Green trophy emblematic of the U. S. National Championship. However, back in the early 1940’s, there was no pro tour, and indeed only a sparse amateur tournament schedule, besides which his graduation occurred right in the midst of World War II, in deference to which the U. S. Nationals was not played during the three-year period from 1943-45 (Brinton also won the Nationals in 1946 and 1947).
Upon returning to his native Philadelphia shortly after his college graduation, Brinton decided to enter the field of Accounting, taking courses at the Wharton School of Business at Penn which led to a position at Colonial Mortgage in Philadelphia for many years, followed by an extensive stint at Fannie Mae as an auditor. An avid reader throughout his life, Brinton worked part-time at the Wayne library after his retirement, doing their books and payroll right up to his early 80’s.
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