Tillinghast, Charles Carpenter (1911 - 1998)
Role: Chancellor, Trustee, FellowDates: 1954 - 1998
Portrait Location: Sayles Hall 108
Artist: Sanden, John Howard (b. 1935)
Portrait Date: 1979
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 33 1/4
Framed Dimensions: 42 1/2
Brown Portrait Number: 248
Brown Historical Property Number: 598
Charles C. Tillinghast earned a B.A. from Brown in 1932 and a J.D. from Columbia University three years later. He spent two decades as a lawyer with a private firm and with the district attorney's office in New York City, and then turned his career to corporate work. After four years as vice president for international operations at Bendix Corporation, Tillinghast joined Trans World Airlines, serving there as CEO for 16 years. From 1976 to 1983 he worked as an executive in the financial services industry, first with White Weld & Co. and then with Merrill Lynch. Tillinghast retired from corporate work in 1983. His service to Brown dates from 1954 when he became a trustee, and he subsequently served as chancellor from 1968-1979 and a fellow in the later years of his life.
Tillinghast's generosity to Brown's student community is demonstrated in two scholarship funds that have aided hundreds of undergraduates. Moreover, Tillinghast was named "International Boss of the Year" by the National Secretaries Association in 1969. In 1982 he received the Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal, the highest honor bestowed by Brown faculty.
John Howard Sanden painted Tillinghast in live sittings in 1979. Sanden was founder and president of the Portrait Institute in New York and has authored several books on painting portraits in oil.