Editing Chevy Chase (section)

== Early life and education ==
=== Family ===
Cornelius Crane Chase was born in [[Lower Manhattan]] on October 8, 1943,<ref>{{cite web|title=Chevy Chase biography|url=http://www.biography.com/people/chevy-chase-9542517|publisher=Biography.com|access-date=October 17, 2013|archive-date=April 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403103538/https://www.biography.com/people/chevy-chase-9542517|url-status=live}}</ref> and grew up in [[Woodstock, New York]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nymag.com/arts/tv/profiles/48252/|title=Is Chevy Chase a Potential Successor to Johnny Carson?|website=New York Magazine|date=June 26, 2008|access-date=December 30, 2020|archive-date=September 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919214158/https://nymag.com/arts/tv/profiles/48252/|url-status=live}}</ref> He has an older brother, Ned Jr.<ref name=sober/>

His father, Edward Tinsley "Ned" Chase (1919–2005),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/17/books/edward-chase-86-longtime-book-editor-is-dead.html|title=Edward Chase, 86, Longtime Book Editor, Is Dead (Published 2005)|date=June 17, 2005|access-date=December 30, 2020|website=The New York Times|archive-date=November 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201119131910/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/17/books/edward-chase-86-longtime-book-editor-is-dead.html|url-status=live}}</ref> was a [[Princeton University|Princeton]]-educated Manhattan book editor and magazine writer.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/edward-tinsley-chase-%E2%80%9941 |title=Edward Tinsley Chase '41 &#124; Princeton Alumni Weekly |access-date=September 20, 2018 |archive-date=July 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727213946/https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/edward-tinsley-chase-%E2%80%9941 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Chase's paternal grandfather was artist and illustrator [[Edward Leigh Chase]], and his great-uncle was painter and teacher [[Frank Swift Chase]]. His mother, Cathalene Parker (née Browning; 1923–2005), was a concert pianist and [[Libretto|librettist]], whose father, [[Rear admiral (United States)|Rear Admiral]] [[Miles Browning]], served as Admiral [[Raymond A. Spruance]]'s Chief of Staff on the aircraft carrier [[USS Enterprise (CV-6)|USS ''Enterprise'']] at the [[Battle of Midway]] in [[World War II]]. Cathalene was adopted as a child by her stepfather, [[Cornelius Vanderbilt Crane]], heir to [[Crane Co.|The Crane Company]], and took the name Catherine Crane.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/07/11/archives/explorers-survivor-omitted.html | work=The New York Times | title=Explorer's Survivor Omitted | date=July 11, 1962 | archive-date=July 5, 2018 | access-date=July 27, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705064421/https://www.nytimes.com/1962/07/11/archives/explorers-survivor-omitted.html | url-status=live }}</ref> Her mother, also named Cathalene, was an opera singer who performed several times at [[Carnegie Hall]].<ref name="BurginHoltz2009">{{cite book|author1=Martha Burgin|author2=Maureen Holtz|title=Robert Allerton: the private man & the public gifts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eWgmAQAAMAAJ|year=2009|publisher=The News-Gazette|page=132|isbn=978-0-9798420-7-8}}</ref>

Chase was named for his adoptive grandfather, Cornelius, while the nickname "Chevy" was bestowed by his grandmother from the medieval English ballad "[[The Ballad of Chevy Chase]]". As a descendant of the Scottish [[Clan Douglas]], she thought the name appropriate.<ref name="I'm Chevy Chase...and You're Not">Fruchter, Rena. ''I'm Chevy Chase...and You're Not''. Virgin Books, 2007.</ref>

According to his step-brother John:

{{cquote|[Chevy] once told me that people who defined themselves in terms of their ancestry were like potatoes—the best parts of them were underground. He disdained the pretension of his mother's side of the family, as embodied by her mother, Cattie.<ref name="I'm Chevy Chase...and You're Not" />}}

===Early life===
As a child, Chase vacationed at [[Castle Hill (Ipswich, Massachusetts)|Castle Hill]], the Cranes' summer estate in [[Ipswich, Massachusetts]].<ref name="LLC1993">{{cite book|title=New York Magazine|website=Newyorkmetro.com|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zCYAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32|date=August 23, 1993|page=32|issn=0028-7369}}</ref> Chase's parents divorced when he was four; his father remarried into the [[Folgers]] coffee family, and his mother remarried twice. He has stated that he grew up in an [[upper middle class]] environment and that his adoptive maternal grandfather did not bequeath any assets to Chase's mother when he died.<ref name="stern918">Chase, Chevy, interview on ''Howard Stern Show'', Sirius Satellite Radio, September 18, 2008.</ref> In a 2007 biography, Chase stated that he was physically and psychologically [[child abuse|abused]] as a child by his mother and stepfather, Dr. John Cederquist, a psychoanalyst.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chase-biography-idUSN2333396920070424|title=Chevy Chase says in book he was beaten by mother|work=Reuters|date=April 24, 2007|access-date=August 15, 2012|archive-date=October 2, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002142443/http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/04/24/us-chase-biography-idUSN2333396920070424|url-status=live}}</ref> In that biography, he said, "I lived in fear all the time, deathly fear." Abuse he was subjected to as a child included being awakened in the middle of the night by his mother to be slapped repeatedly across the face, lashes to the backs of his legs, punches to the head by his stepfather, and being locked in a bedroom closet for hours. As a punishment for being suspended from school at the age of 14, Chase was locked in a basement for several days.<ref>Fruchter, Rena. [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781852273460 ''I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not'']. London: Virgin Books Ltd., 2007, p. 11.</ref> Both of his parents died in 2005.<ref name="Walk of Fame" />

Chase was educated at [[Riverdale Country School]],<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Jarvis|first=Jeff|url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-chevy-chases-new-high-fatherhood-vol-20-no-11/|title=Chevy Chase's New High: Fatherhood|magazine=People|date=September 12, 1983|access-date=October 22, 2019|archive-date=October 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023024340/https://people.com/archive/cover-story-chevy-chases-new-high-fatherhood-vol-20-no-11/|url-status=live}}</ref> an [[independent school|independent]] day school in the [[Riverdale, Bronx|Riverdale]] neighborhood of [[The Bronx]], New York City, before being expelled. He ultimately graduated as valedictorian in 1962 from the [[Stockbridge School]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=M9oVAAAAIBAJ&pg=2217,6446264|title=The Milwaukee Sentinel&nbsp;— Google News Archive Search|website=News.google.com|access-date=December 30, 2020}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> an independent boarding school in the town of [[Interlaken, Massachusetts|Stockbridge]], [[Massachusetts]]. At Stockbridge, he was known as a practical joker with an occasional mean streak. He attended [[Haverford College]] during the 1962–1963 term, where he was noted for [[slapstick]] comedy and an absurd sense of physical humor, including his signature [[pratfall]]s and "sticking forks into his orifices".<ref name="biconews.com">Rudolph, Stephanie. {{cite web |url=http://www.biconews.com/2003/10/28/prankly-speaking/ |title=Prankly Speaking |work=The Bi-College News |date=October 28, 2003 |access-date=February 26, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421202900/http://www.biconews.com/2003/10/28/prankly-speaking/ |archive-date=April 21, 2015 }}</ref> During a 2009 interview on the ''[[Today (U.S. TV program)|Today]]'' show, he ostensibly verified the oft-publicized [[urban legend]] that he was [[Expulsion (education)|expelled]] for harboring a cow in his fourth floor room,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.haverford.edu/haverblog/2009/10/08/happy-birthday-chevy-about-that-cow/ |title=blogs.haverford.edu |date=October 8, 2009 |publisher=blogs.haverford.edu |access-date=February 26, 2015 |archive-date=March 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150306121324/http://blogs.haverford.edu/haverblog/2009/10/08/happy-birthday-chevy-about-that-cow/ |url-status=live }}</ref> although his former roommate David Felsen asserted in a 2003 interview that Chase left for academic reasons.<ref name="biconews.com" /> Chase transferred to [[Bard College]] in [[Annandale-on-Hudson, New York]], where he studied a [[Pre-medical|pre-med curriculum]] and graduated in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts in English.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chevy Chase Movies and Shows |url=https://tv.apple.com/us/person/chevy-chase/umc.cpc.3vw3q7x6nf4jq5x0iosq1ka5m |access-date=March 11, 2024 |website=Apple TV |language=en-US}}</ref>

Chase did not enter [[medical school]], which meant he was subject to [[Conscription in the United States#Vietnam War|the military draft]]. Chase was not drafted, and when he appeared in January 1989 as the first guest of the just-launched late-night ''[[The Pat Sajak Show]]'', he said he had tricked his draft board into believing he deserved a [[Selective Service System#Classifications|4-F classification]] by falsely claiming that he had "homosexual tendencies".<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/11/arts/review-television-late-night-chitchat-additions-pat-sajak-and-arsenio-hall.html Late-Night Chitchat Additions: Pat Sajak and Arsenio Hall] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905141754/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/11/arts/review-television-late-night-chitchat-additions-pat-sajak-and-arsenio-hall.html |date=September 5, 2018 }}, a January 11, 1989, review from ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>

While at Bard, Chase played drums in a 3 man band called The Leather Canary. The other 2 members Walter Becker and Donald Fagan went on to found Steely Dan. He also played drums and keyboards for a band called [[Chamaeleon Church]], which recorded one album for [[MGM Records]] before disbanding.