Daily News | R. Anderson ‘Andy’ Pew, former chairman of Pew Charitable Trusts, director at Glenmede Trust Company, and philanthropist, has died at 85
former chairman of the Pew Charitable Trusts, director at the Glenmede Trust Co., executive at Sun Oil Co., and celebrated philanthropist, died Saturday, June 25, of complications of prostate cancer at Bryn Mawr Hospital.
As successful as he was in business, Mr. Pew was equally accomplished as a philanthropist, volunteer, and community activist. He worked with House of Umoja in counseling young Philadelphia gang members in the 1970s and quietly contributed to countless civic, social, artistic, scientific, educational, and health-care organizations for decades.told the New York TimesMr.
Born Aug, 22, 1936, in Philadelphia, Mr. Pew grew up on Long Island, N.Y. He graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., attended Princeton University for a time, and graduated from Temple in 1959. Later, he was a Sloan fellow and earned a master’s degree in science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. Pew was a longtime pilot and sailor. He earned his pilot’s license at 16, bought a Piper Comanche in 1965, and flew it until just a few years ago. He was a trustee and chairman of the board for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and a member of the Philadelphia Aviation Country Club.was a member of the Harbor Club, Seal Harbor Yacht Club, and Northeast Harbor Fleet. “When he went to Maine,” his daughter said, “he became a boy again. He could relax and find himself.
Mr. Pew could be stern but also witty and irreverent. He liked to tell jokes and made friends with the grocer as well as the CEO. Among his notable “three W’s,” he valued wisdom and work as much as wealth.
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