[1][2] He graduated Williams College and the Harvard School of Business Administration to begin a career in banking.
[1] He flew directly there in July while Eleanor led the children, aged 15, 12, and 8, through Europe and Egypt from where they took a freighter for a slow voyage on to Burma.
[1] From 1957 until his retirement in 1967, Mr. Fitchen was executive director of the New York Clearing House Association at 100 Broad Street.
[2] He and his wife, Eleanor Fitchen, founded and organized Southeast Open Spaces (SOS), a nonprofit Putnam County land trust, where he became its first president.
[2] As the role of the organization changed to protect properties in neighboring towns, the name was changed to Save Open Spaces and then to The Putnam County Land Trust, Save Open Spaces, Inc. Paul was also the president of the Brewster Public Library on Main Street in the Village of Brewster[2] Paul Fitchen died at his home in Brewster, N.Y. at age 88, following cancer surgery[2]