Introduced By: Senators McDonald, Oster and Tavares
Date Introduced : May 14, 1998
Referred To: Senate Read and Passed
WHEREAS, Clarence C. Pell was born in New York City, the son of the late Clarence C. and Madeline (Borland) Pell; and
WHEREAS, He graduated from Pomfret High School in 1929, and Harvard College in 1933 where he was a member of the Fly Club as well as trustee emeritus and an Army Corps veteran of World War II; and
WHEREAS, He entered the aviation insurance business, becoming Vice President of the Marine Office of America. He was also named Director of the Associated Aviation Underwriters of New York and was appointed consultant to the Federal Aviation Agency and founded Air Transport Insurance, S.A. and Nuclear Mutual Ltd; and
WHEREAS, He played court tennis and racquets, games which were the forerunners to squash and tennis. He won the national Racquets Doubles Championship and the National Singles Racquets Championship of America in 1958, and also played ice hockey into his seventies; and
WHEREAS, Clarence was on the board of managers at the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York, and was a member of the Piping Rock Club and the Reading Room in Newport. He was the driving force behind the 1978 Newport tennis court restoration which had been abandoned since a 1939 fire. He hit the first ball at the opening ceremonies; now, therefore be it
RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations hereby extends its sincerest condolences to his wife Francesca, his sons Peter and Haven, his daughter Eve, his first cousin U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell, and his nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and he is hereby authorized and directed to transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Francesca Pell.
