DeVECCHI--Betsy Trippe, died on Friday, April 24, at her home on Dunemere Lane in East Hampton, New York, after a long illness. She was in her 77th year. She is survived by her husband, Robert P. DeVecchi, her four children, William Trippe Duke, Terry Duke Marsh, John Hincks Duke and William Angus Douglass, eight grandchildren, Isobel Foxen Duke, Emily Trippe Duke, John Trippe Duke, Catherine Ellis Duke, Owen Beals Duke, John Stetinnius Marsh, Elizabeth Tickle Douglass, and William Trippe Douglass. Also surviving are her brothers Charles White Trippe and Edward Stetinnius Trippe and numerous nieces and nephews. A brother, John Trippe, predeceased her. Betsy was the eldest child and only daughter of Juan Terry Trippe, founder and long time president of Pan American Airways and Betty Stettinius Trippe, sister of Edward Stettinius, Secretary of State under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman and signer of the Charter of the United Nations for the United States. Born in New York City, Betsy was flown to East Hampton when she was three weeks old. Her father piloted her in an amphibian aircraft. Her first home in East Hampton was her grandparents house on Dunemere Lane where Betsy was to die 77 years later. During her lifetime, Betsy was extremely active in volunteer activities. She served on the Boards of Outward Bound, the Lighthouse, The Institute for the Visual Sciences, The Ackerman Institute, Homemaker Services, The Volunteer Consulting Group and the International Rescue Committee. In East Hampton she was an active member of the LVIS and the Garden Club. Betsy was a founding director and President of Orbis International which she helped create in 1973. Utilizing a converted DC-10 aircraft and volunteer opthomological personnel, Orbis is a flying eye hospital which travels the globe. It has restored sight to hundreds of thousands and provided training to thousands of young opthomologists. Funeral services will be held in New York City on Friday, May 15, at St. James Church (71st and Madison Avenue) at 11:00am.