Principal David W. Shipp, 65, died suddenly Sunday, August 14, 1960 at the Lowell General Hospital in Massachusetts, after a brief illness.

Mr. Shipp had been principal of the elementary and high schools in Chelsea for the past nine years. He had established residence in Nabnasset, Mass. a year ago.

The son of the late Edward and Cora (Hamrick) Shipp, he was born April 16, 1895 in Oakland City, Indiana. He married Laura Agnes Clinesmith in Richland County Illinois in 1917.

He has devoted his entire life to education and the promotion of boys’ and girls’ club work. Mr. Shipp received his early education in Olney, Illinois. He taught at a private boys’ school in New York from 1921 to 1923 and received his A.B. degree from McKendree College in Lebanon, Illinois in June 1924. He also taught at the latter institution from 1923 to 1925 and at Albion, Illinois high school from 1925-1926.

Mr. Shipp received his bachelor’s degree from Drew Theological Seminary in Madison, N.J. and had been an ordained minister for the past ten years. He had formerly been a pastor of the Mendon Methodist Church of Rutland.

Mr. Shipp attended the University of Illinois in 1927 while teaching in Crossville, Illinois from 1926 to 1928. He received his Master’s degree at the University of New York in 1929. From 1928 until 1942 he taught at Sea Bright, N.J.

Mr. Shipp served as principal at Chittenden from 1948 until 1951 when he transferred to Chelsea.

He was a member of the George Washington Lodge 51 F. & A.M. of Chelsea.

Survivors include his wife, the former Agnes Clinesmith, and one son, Harold W. Shipp of Brattleboro; also two grandchildren.

Funeral services held at the Methodist Church in Graniteville, Mass. with burial in the Locust Ridge Cemetery in Brattleboro.

The United Opinion (Bradford, VT) – Friday, August 19, 1960