Faneuil Adams Dies, Mobil Executive and Chess Official 
 
 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 1999--Faneuil Adams, Jr., a former
 senior executive of Mobil Corporation, and a long-time official in the
 chess world, died of a brain tumor today at his home in Manhattan. He was
 75 years old. Mr. Adams was a founder of Chess-in-the-Schools, the program
 which now reaches more than 32,000 students in New York's inner-city schools.
 
 Mr. Adams was employed by Mobil Oil for twenty-eight years, serving in a
 variety of senior planning and international management positions in
 various countries, including the presidency of major Mobil affiliates in
 Italy and Japan as well as the presidency of Mobil South, Inc. In his
 career, Mr. Adams received the Order of Merit from Italy and both the Third
 Order of the Sacred Treasure and Third Order of the Rising Sun from Japan.
 While in Japan he also served as chairman of the US-Japan Trade Study Group
 and was vice-president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.
 
 A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Mr. Adams graduated from Phillips Exeter
 Academy, and received a bachelor's degree in Physics from Harvard College,
 before going on to attain a law degree from Harvard Law School. He served
 in the Parachute Infantry of the U.S. Army as a First Lieutenant in World
 War II and the Korean War. He was awarded the Bronze Star medal. 
 
 He spent a year at the French Institut d'Etudes Politiques as a Fulbright
 Scholar and was an attorney with the law firm of Davis, Polk, Wardwell,
 Sunderland and Kiendl from 1950 to 1956, when he joined Mobil. Following
 his retirement from Mobil in 1985 he was visiting professor and
 Executive-in-Residence at the Columbia University School of Business until
 1993.
 
 As a full time, unpaid volunteer, Mr. Adams was best known in recent years
 for this outstanding contributions to the chess world, where he served on
 the governing board of the U.S. Chess Federation. He is credited with
 playing a major role in the reformation of the Federation and in helping to
 manage a dramatic turnaround in that organization's finances, taking it
 from near bankruptcy to full solvency. For the last decade, Mr. Adams has
 served as an officer and director of the Manhattan Chess Club.
 
 Since 1990 he has served as President of the American Chess Foundation,
 which changed its name in 1996 to Chess-in-the-Schools to reflect its major
 activity. Chess-in-the-Schools, currently serving 160 schools in New York
 City, has successfully entered teams in national and international
 competitions. The New York program has been replicated in 17 other cities
 throughout the U.S.
 
 Mr. Adams was a direct descendant of a brother President John Adams. He was
 also a direct descendant of Samuel Adams and Peter Faneuil who built
 Faneuil Hall in Boston. His grandmother was Rebecca Ames descended from
 Fisher Ames, a friend and colleague of George Washington.
 
 Mr. Adams is survived by his wife Emiko, and by two daughters, Rebecca of
 Hicksville, NY and Susannah of Branford, CT. The family has requested that,
 in lieu of flowers, contributions be sent to Chess-in-the-Schools at 353
 West 46th Street, NY 10036  (note "ATTENTION:  Tournament Fund" on the
envelope).