Skip to main content

Independent school group chief dies

John Chubb, president of the National Association of Independent Schools, died at his home in Avalon, N.J., Nov. 12. He was 61. Chubb's family did not publicly release a cause of death, but one of the CEO's former colleagues—Terry Moe, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution—noted in a Nov. 20 column that Chubb had struggled with cancer. (The family asked that donations be made to the Melanoma Research Foundation.) The association's board of trustees has appointed COO Donna Orem as interim CEO. Chubb Chubb was a controversial pick for $22 million-revenue NAIS when he was named president 2013. He had never worked at a NAIS-member school and some of his political… Read More