Everett Needham CaseVAN HORNESVILLE -July 19 - Everett Needham Case, president emeritus of Colgate University, diedin his sleep yesterday at the Harding Nursing Home in nearby Waterville, NY. Hewas 99.A former president also of theAlfred P. Sloan Foundation and in the 1960s Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bankof New York, Case was born in Plainfield, NJ, the elder son of J. Herbert Caseand Alice Needham Case. He was graduated from Princeton University in 1922, andearned an honors degree in modern European history at Corpus Christi College,Cambridge. Case's graduate study in American history at Harvard was interruptedin 1927 when he became personal assistant to Owen D. Young, then chairman ofGeneral Electric Co., founder-director of the Radio Corporation of America(RCA), and deputy chairman of the New York Federal Reserve, of which Case'sfather was the senior Deputy-Governor. In June, 1931, Case's marriage toJosephine Young, only daughter of Owen D. Young, was celebrated in the oldUniversalist Church in this upstate village, after which the young couple spenttwo months in China as American delegates to the Shanghai conference of theInstitute of Pacific Relations. Thus began an interest in China and the Chinesethat led to Case's appointment in 1949 as consultant on U. S. - China policy toSecretary of State Dean Acheson. Some 15 years later he became a foundingdirector of the National Committee on U. S. - China Relations, and in 1973 asenior member of the delegation to visit China-in-Transition, which was receivedon a memorable evening by Chou-en-Lai. On his induction in 1942 aspresident of Colgate University, Case pledged its total cooperation with the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps in the round-the-clock training and basic education oftheir aviation cadets and future officer personnel. The total thus trained atthis then small liberal arts college during World War II was 4,793. In themeantime, Case had appointed and chaired a commitee of senior professors to planfor a Post-War college whose educational program would demand creative work offaculty and student alike. From this emerged Colgate's version of the so-calledCore Curriculum - which attracted favorable attention for its emphasis on afreshman program that distinguished college sharply from school. Colgate'slibrary, for which he raised much of the funding, was named in his honor in1962. During his administrative years,Case also served at various times as president of the American Council onEducation, chairman of National Educational Television (NET), board member ofIBM World Trade, the Committee for Economic Development, and the Fund forFinancial Aid to Education. Additionally, he had been an alumni trustee ofPrinceton, board member of the Sloan-Kettering Foundation, and a member of theHarvard Overseers Committe to visit the College and its History Department. Returning at last to VanHornesville, which he and his wife had always considered their home, theyjointly researched and co-authored the only full-length biography of her father.Scheduled for publication as "Owen D. Young and American Enterprise,"in time for their Golden Wedding anniversary, its appearance was delayed until1982, when the first two copies off the press were duly autographed by eachauthor for the other. Proud of this partnership with his wife in preparing thisfifth of her published works, as he was to have followed both his father andfather-in-law as Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve, he once remarked thatwith these honors, his offspring, and his 13 honorary degrees, he was - andought to be - content. Case's wife, Josephine, died in1990. He is survived by their four children; Josephine Edmonds Case of VanHornesville, James H. III of White Plains, NY, Samuel P. of Fairfax, CA, andJohn P. of Cambridge, MA; eight grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Memorial services will be heldlater in Van Hornesville and at Colgate. Gifts in memory of the deceased mayappropriately be directed to the Everett Needham Case Library or in support ofminority applicants, to: Memorial Gifts, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to J.Seaton McGrath Funeral Home 40 West James Street, Richfield Springs, New York.