University of Rochester
Athletic Hall of Fame
Emerson Chapin
'41
At Rochester:
- Three-year letter winner in tennis and swimming
- Set the University record for the 400 yard freestyle relay
- Member of the undefeated 1939 team
- Held a Rochester Prize Scholarship
- Elected Phi Beta Kappa
- Member of Chi Rho, President of Mendicants, Secretary of Keidaeans
- Received a B.A. with honors in English in 1941
Post-Graduate:
- Worked as a copy boy at The New York Sun before being drafted into the U.S. Army
- Served with the 98th Army Infantry Division from 1942-46
- Worked for three years in Tokyo, Japan as a Publications Analyst
- Worked for two years as a sub-editor on the North American Desk of Reuters News Agency in London
- Joined The New York Times in 1955 where he remained for nearly 30 years, mainly as a copy editor on the foreign news desk
- From 1963-66, served as foreign correspondent based in Tokyo, covering Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and the Philippines
- Covered swimming in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo
- Retired in 1984
