Juan Trippe

Personal Life Trippe was born in Sea Bright, New Jersey, on June 27, 1899, the great-great-grandson of Lieutenant John Trippe, captain of the USS Vixen. (http://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/04/obituaries/juantrippe-81-dies-us-aviation-pioneer.html) Trippe married Elizabeth "Betty" Stettinius Trippe (19041983), the sister of United States Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., in 1928. (Carey, Charles W. (2009). American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries. Infobase Publishing. p. 343. ISBN 0-816-06883-6) They had four children, Elizabeth ("Betsy"), John Terry, Charles White, and Edward Stettinius Trippe, who now resides in Tucker's Town, Bermuda, where he is executive director of the Tucker's Point Club and serves on Bermuda International Airport's advisory board. (Hill, Ren (March 7, 2009). "Gala to benefit hospital". The Royal Gazette.) (Chaplin, Julia (June 19, 2005). "Going to Bermuda".The New York Times). Trippe suffered a stroke in September 1980 which forced him to cut back on his workload. He died after suffering a second stroke at his New York City home on April 3, 1981, at the age of 81. He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. ("The Sky Rider". Time) (Juan Trippe, Pan Am Founder, Dies". New York Times in the Daytona Beach Morning Journal. April 4, 1981. pp. 5D) (Mosca, Alexandra Kathryn (2008). Green-Wood Cemetery. Arcadia Publishing. p. 59. ISBN 0-738-55650-5.) Education Trippe attended the Bovea School and graduated from The Hill School in 1917. He enrolled at Yale University but left when the United States entered World War I to apply for flight training with the U.S. Navy. After completing training in June 1918, he was designated as a Naval Aviator and was commissioned as an Ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve. (Daley, Robert (1980). An American Saga. New York: Random House. p. 7.) (http://nationalaviation.org/trippe-juan/) Demobilized from active duty, he returned to Yale University, graduating in 1921.

Past Experiences While at Yale, he was a member of St. Anthony Hall and of the Skull and Bones society. Trippe was treasurer at the first-ever meet of the National Intercollegiate Flying Association in 1920. ("1920 NIFA Meet Program". National Intercollegiate Flying Association). After graduation from Yale, Trippe began working on Wall Street, but soon became bored. In 1922 he raised money from his old Yale classmates, selling them stock in his new airline, which he called Long Island Airways, an air-taxi service for the rich and powerful.( Gandt, Robert (1995). Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. p. 12.ISBN 0-688-04615-0.)