Guy Martin Newland died June 17 in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Visitation and funeral services were held among family and friends in Pittsburgh on June 19 and 20.

In a moving ceremony at Calvary Episcopal Church, the Rev. Dr. Harold T. Lewis committed Guy’s ashes to the Church’s Columbarium. Dr. Lewis, a personal friend, conducted the committal in Spanish as Guy would have wished. As a Korean War veteran, Guy received military honors from a U.S. Army honor guard, Taps was played, and a folded flag was presented to his wife, Joan Monroe Newland. A reception and supper was held at The Pittsburgh Golf Club. The extended family and gathered friends shared reminiscences.

Guy is fondly remembered by friends in Pittsburgh, on the Vineyard, and in Panama, Mexico and Spain. He led a rich and rewarding life, traveled widely, and left positive impressions on a wide variety of personal and professional contacts.

Guy was born in the Panama Canal Zone on August 31, 1928 in Gorgas Hospital, followed three minutes later by his twin William Ross Newland. He attended The Colegio de La Salle in Panama City. He entered Kent School in 1942 and graduated cum laude in 1947 as his class’s senior prefect and co-captain with his brother of the state prep school championship baseball team. He also played football for Kent. He then went on to Princeton, graduating in the class of 1951, where he was also president of Elm Club. He also attended graduate school at Columbia University and the University of Panama. Guy was a Reserve Officer Training Corps graduate at Princeton and served as an artillery officer in the U.S. Army’s 1st Armored Division in the Korean War from 1951 to 1953. He was decorated by both the Colombian and South Korean governments and received a Bronze Star from the U.S. Army.

Guy worked at Becton Dickinson & Company from 1953 to 1989. He established a new export division in Panama, and was vice president and general manager in Mexico and then Latin America. In 1977, he established a new B-D Division in Madrid, Spain, retiring as chairman of B-D Spain in 1989. Guy then founded two different international mergers and acquisitions consulting firms in Spain, Consultores Fenway and The Canterbury Consulting Group.

Guy was married for 40 years to Edna Mae Reed, who died in Madrid in 1990. He was also predeceased by his twin brother, Ross and his parents Kenneth and Ione Newland.

Survivors include his sister, Mary Newland Clary and his children Juanita (Janne) Martin (Kent ’73), William Ross 3rd (’74), and Andrew Reed (’76), stepchildren Anne B. Franks, Russell M. Franks, and Leigh F. Gallagher. Guy married Joan M. Sawhill in June of 1994, the widow of his Princeton classmate Donald B. Sawhill, and is survived by her. He is also survived by seven grandchildren, five step-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. He spent the last sixteen years of his life in Pittsburgh and on Chappaquiddick Island.

Guy will be remembered for his knowledge of the history of the American and Spanish Civil Wars, World War II and the Korean War, and his love of Latin American culture and especially all things Spanish. In retirement Guy led group tours to Spain, not merely of historical sites but emphasizing the finest hotels, restaurants, food and wines of the country. He loved to travel and had visited most areas of the globe. He charmed people with his outgoing personality and his ability to tell a story. He loved life and will be remembered by all as a gourmand and raconteur and as a devoted, loving husband and father.

Guy was extremely loyal to Kent School and Princeton University, serving both in various capacities over the years. He valued public service and was very proud of his wartime military service. He was president of The Madrid Council and a national director of The United States Navy League in Madrid, receiving their Legion of Honor Medal.

He served on the boards of The American School of Mexico City and of Madrid. His service also included The American Club of Madrid, the Fulbright Commission, senior warden and diocesan representative of St. George’s Church of Madrid, and a chalice bearer at St. George’s and at Calvary in Pittsburgh. In Mexico he founded and served on the boards of schools, hospitals, and charitable institutions. He was awarded The Naval Cross Order of Merit by the Spanish Navy. Guy was a former member of The University Club of Mexico City, The Club de Golf La Hacienda in Mexico City, the Princeton Club of New York and the Pittsburgh Athletic Association. At the time of his death he was an active member of The Pittsburgh Golf Club, the Edgartown Yacht Club and the Chappaquiddick Beach Club.

Guy was an avid reader of books and newspapers. His love of sports and politics, cats and dogs, and children, church and education were foremost throughout his life. To Guy, the Red Sox were the best team ever. His enthusiasm was truly contagious. He will be profoundly missed by all who knew him or came into contact with him. May he rest in peace.