Charles S. “Chip” Young III ’72

Charles S. “Chip” Young III ’72, of Jamestown, R.I., formerly of Westport, Conn.; Aug. 24.
As a young child, he underwent open-heart surgery at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He was a high school star athlete in soccer, basketball, and baseball. At Brown, he played on the varsity soccer team and was named an All-American in his sophomore year. He was named All-Ivy all three years of his collegiate varsity career and in 1983 was inducted into the Brown University Athletic Hall of Fame. After graduation, he went to England in the hope of breaking into professional soccer there but was unable to gain a foothold in the English game. On his return to the U.S., he launched a career in sports journalism and then communications, utilizing his extraordinary writing skill, affable personality, and big-picture strategic capacities to guide the media outreach of a succession of environmental organizations, among them Rhode Island’s Save the Bay and the University of Rhode Island Coastal Resources Center. He was later named a senior fellow of the URI Coastal Institute. He was a coauthor of the weekly opinion column Philippe & Jorge’s Cool, Cool World,  which ran in the Providence Eagle, the Providence Phoenix, Motif Magazine and other publications for more than 40 years, commenting on the absurdities of the world and often poking, prodding, and mercilessly pillorying politicians and celebrities both local and global. He was also a contributor to NBC10. He is survived by his companion, Beverly Black; two sisters; and a half-brother.