Current Issue
July 16, 2008
Vol. 108, No. 16
Memorials
Memorials by Name: L
William L. Kendrick '26
BILL KENDRICK (or "Ginger," as he was known in college), well known as an outstanding judge and colorful figure in the world of breeders and exhibitors of purebred dogs,...
Gerald J. Laba '62
Gerry died of heart failure June 25, 2011, in Encino, Calif. Gerry entered Princeton from St. Louis Country Day School. An English major, he was a member of Key and Seal...
Benjamin Labaree '30
Ben Labaree died Nov. 9, 2009, of pneumonia at Chestnut Hill (Pa.) Hospital. He was born in Iran (then Persia) to missionary parents, flew across a World War I...
John K. B. Labarre '64
JOHN LABARRE died Sept. 18, 1991, after a lengthy battle with cancer.John grew up in Durham, N.C., and prepared for Princeton at the Millbrook School in southern New...
Milton E. D. Labau '32
We recently learned that Milt LaBau died Aug. 25, 1997. As of our 50th reunion, Milt was living in Bethesda, Md.Soon after leaving Princeton, Milt became involved with...
Peter P. Labe '51
Peter was born Nov. 7, 1929, and came to Princeton from South Side High in Rockville Centre, N.Y. An economics major, he was active in the pre-law society and a member...
Alfred J. Lacazette '43
Al died Dec. 11, 2002. He was 82.Born in Havana, Cuba, Al devoted his business career to the petrochemical industry. He retired from Conoco Chemicals in Houston many...
Mario Joseph Lacazette '45
MARIO LACAZETTE cited in Lexington, Ky., Aug. 10, 1991 from complications of a longstanding heart condition. Lac entered Princeton from Exeter, following in the...
Harrington A. Lackey '47
THE CLASS LOST one of its most loyal members when Hal died of cancer Feb. 19, 1991, at age 65 in Nashville, Tenn. He was a practicing patent, trademark, and copyright...
Bernard Lacoste '53
Bernard, who was born in Paris, died there March 21, 2006. He was the son of Rene Lacoste and Simone Thion de la Chaume. He joined us junior year, transferring from...
John E. Lacouture *50
John Lacouture, a retired Navy captain who flew many types of aircraft, died Aug. 16, 2010, of congestive heart failure. He was 92. Lacouture graduated...
Gordon R. Lacy '32
Gordon died May 15, 2003. He prepared at Cuba [N.Y.] High School. At Princeton, he was a member of the freshman basketball team, junior varsity lacrosse squad, Interclub...
Ben E. Laden '63
A nationally known economist who worked in industry, government, and academia, Ben died Jan. 20, 2009, at home in Washington, D.C. He suffered from frontotemporal...
Kurt Ladenburg '35 *39
Dr. Kurt Ladenburg died July 30, 1998, of a stroke, in Kitty Hawk, N.C. He was 83. He graduated with honors and received a PhD in chemistry in 1939. Born in Breslau,...
Charles Henry Lafean '52
Charles died June 20, 2003, in Lewiston, Maine.Born in Chicago in April 1924, he was the second oldest member of our class. His preparation for Princeton included...
William Buttolph Lafer '61
BILL LAFER succumbed to brain cancer Mar. 25, 1993, in Roseville, Mich., after a fouryear struggle and a brief recovery following surgery in Jan. 1990.Born in Grosse...
Frederick Wayne Lafferty '53
A true gentleman to the end, Fred died Mar. 1, 2002, of cancer at his home in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.Fred entered Princeton from Gilman School, where he had been captain of...
Paco Axel Lagerstrom *42
PACO AXEL LAGERSTROM *42, professor emeritus of applied mathematics at Calif. Inst. of Technology, died Feb. 16, 1989, at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. He...
William J. Laine '44
Our classmate died Aug. 13, 2000. A member of Dial Lodge, Bill left Princeton to serve as a field service engineer for United Aircraft when WWII commenced. After the...
John Calvin Lair '38
Jack died of pneumonia Aug. 18, 1999, in Cynthiana, Kent.In 1988, Jack wrote that in his "not quite two years at Princeton, '38 supplied the best obtainable...
Dana Laird '88
The class lost one of its most loyal members when Dana died in a bicycle accident on July 2, 2002, in Cambridge, Mass.Dana grew up in Dallas, where she was valedictorian...
J. Packard Laird '42
Packy, an innovative engineer and later in life a minister and spiritual leader, died Mar. 23, 2003, at home in Santa Fe, N.Mex. He attended Episcopal High School in...
Mahlon Paxson Laird '40
WITH THE DEATH of Pax Laird June 15, 1990, at his Newton Square, Penn. home, the class has lost a warm and friendly colleague. After devoting ten years to the Silver...
Walter Jones Laird Jr. '48
Walt died on Mar. 15. He served on many boards including those of Tower Hill School, St. Andrew's School, Delaware Trust Co., and the Catholic Diocese of Delaware. He...
David Claire Lake '41
Dave died at home in Vero Beach on May 18, 2000. His widow, Jean Compo Lake, survives.After Lawrenceville, he majored in public affairs at Princeton and was a reserve...
Richard Henry Lake Jr. '45
Hank Lake died in Houston, Tex., after a long bout with cancer, on Feb. 11, 1995, unfortunately slightly more than three months before the 50th reunion of his class. He...
Lamartine Varnedoe Lamar '18
"SHORTY" LAMAR DIED June 22, 1990, at his home in New Orleans. He was born Mar. 28, 1896, in Valdosta, Ga., and spent his youth in Pensacola, Fla. He graduated from St....
Arthur Gorman Lambert '22
ART LAMBERT died June 6, 1991, at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was very active and vigorous until March, when he was hospitalized. After four days in the hospital, he...
William Branson Lambert '45
Bill Lambert died Jan. 7, 2009, at his home in Naples, Fla. He entered Princeton from Oakwood High in Dayton, Ohio. At Princeton he played football and joined Cap and...
William Sipple Lambert '49
One of our class's youngest members, Bill Lambert, died at his home in Seattle, Wash., Mar. 30, 1995, following a brief illness.Bill was born Feb. 15, 1929, in...
Henry M. Lamberton III '45
Harry Lamberton died April 14, 2011. Harry attended Lawrenceville and was the third generation of his family to graduate from Princeton, following in the footsteps of...
Joseph Thistle Lambie '34
Joe, chairman of the Daily Princetonian in our day, who went on to become an investment counselor, teacher, therapist, and volunteer, died April 22, 2005.After earning...
Ferdinand LaMotte IV '58
Andy died Aug. 4, 2008, at Chestertown Nursing and Rehab Center, near his home in Rock Hall, Md. He attended the Lawrenceville School before coming to Princeton. At...
William Mitchell LaMotte '61
Mitch LaMotte died suddenly Aug. 6, 2008, while vacationing with his family in Jamestown, R.I. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Wilmington, Del., Mitch was the son,...
George H. Lamson '62
George died Oct. 15, 2002, of complications from pneumonia and edema resulting from high-altitude hiking in China. George entered Princeton from Simsbury (Conn.) High ...
John Rogers Lanahan '36
AT 79, JACK DIED Apr. 6, 1993, of a stroke in La Mesa, Calif. He attended Trenton H.S. At Princeton, he majored in politics and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He...
Samuel Jackson Lanahan '41
Sam died May 29, 1998, at his home in Dartmouth, England, having been stricken while crossing on the Q.E.II. Having prepared at St. Paul's School, Sam -- also known as...
Thomas Addison Lanahan '69
Twenty-two years after his death, Class of '69 officially remembers Thomas Addison Lanahan, who took his life in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Oct. 18, 1973.Tim grew up in...
William Wallace Lanahan Jr. '40
Wally died July 14, 2006, from complications of Parkinson's disease. Wally prepared at St. Paul's School. At Princeton he majored in history and was a member of the...
Fred G. Lancaster Jr. '36
Fred died Nov. 25, 2004, in Florida after a long illness. He was 90.He prepared at both Staunton Military and Shady Side academies. At Princeton he majored in chemical...
Robert E. Lancaster '42
BOB DIED ]an. 11, 1994, in Pittsburgh, his lifelong home. An engineer, be had spent his entire working career (after the war) with the Weinman Pump & Supply Co.Bob...
Robert Kumler Landis Jr. '36
BOB DIED Dec. 31, 1991, at a nursing home in Jamestown, Ohio, after suffering nine years from Alzheimer's disease.Bob prepared at Oakwood High School in Dayton, Ohio. At...
Allison Booth Landolt '41
Al died May 15, 2000. He prepared at the Ashville School and White Plains [N.Y.] H.S. At Princeton he majored in chemistry, graduating with honors. A member of Campus...
Sealand Whitney Landon III '47
The following is a corrected version of a memorial published in the Sept. 19, 2012, issue. Whit Landon died Jan. 23, 2011, at The Lodge at Otter Creek in Middlebury,...
Graham Gordon Landrum *54
Graham Gordon Landrum, retired college professor of English and distinguished author of mystery novels, died July 31, 1995, in Bristol, Tenn. Graham was born in Dallas,...
Richard T. Lands '64
Ric Lands died June 14, 1998, in Toccoa, Ga., after a short bout with cancer.Ric was born in Toccoa and prepared at Blair Academy. Although Ric entered with '64, his...
Arthur Stephen Lane '34
Art Lane, retired v.p. and general counsel of Johnson & Johnson, the pharmaceutical firm in New Brunswick, N.J., and former District Court judge and chairman of the N.J....
Charles Edgar Lane '31
EDGAR LANE was not given long to enjoy his move to a retirement community at Foulkeways, Gwynedd, Penn. He died on Aug. 2, 1989. Ed earned his undergraduate degree with...
Charles Elliot Lane '30
Charley died Jan. 4, 2003, in NYC; he was 94.Six of Charley's boyhood years were spent in China, where his father, an architect, was involved in the construction of...
Daniel K. Lane '55
Daniel Lane, son of Pauline Kerns and Clinton Welsh Lane, was born in St. Louis May 12, 1933, and died there July 2, 2012. At Princeton he roomed in 1903 Hall with...
Edward Wood Lane Jr. '33
Ed died July 4, 2004, in Jacksonville, Fla., his birthplace.He graduated with honors from Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va. At Princeton he was valedictorian of...
Eugene Numa Lane '58
Gene Lane died Jan. 1, 2007, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He came to Princeton from Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va. At Princeton, he majored...
Robert R. Lane '44
Bob died in May of 1999, of a heart condition, after being in failing health for some time, in Phoenix, where he had been living for many years.After transferring from...
William N. Lane III '65
Bill Lane died of a recurrence of cancer Sept. 20, 2002, at his home in Lake Forest, Ill. At Princeton, he majored in economics, took his meals at Charter and roomed...
Raymond Robert Lanflisi '52
Ray Lanflisi died Sept. 13, 2006, of an arterial embolism in San Diego, Calif. He was 76. Ray came to Princeton from Stuyvesant High School in New York City, majored in...
Calvin Allen Lang '46
Calvin Lang died Feb. 1, 2008, in Louisville, Ky. He was 83. Cal was born in Portland, Ore., and arrived at Princeton in 1942, where he joined Cloister Inn, played...
Robert Christian Lang '36
BOB LANG, at the age of 79, died Dec. 17, 1992. He was a longtime resident of Warren, N.J.After graduation from Newark Academy, at Princeton he majored in civil...
Serge R. Lang *51
Serge Lang, a leading mathematical theorist and gadfly, died Sept. 12, 2005, in Berkeley, Calif., apparently from heart disease. He was 78.Born in Paris, Lang moved to...
Edwin Langberg *56
Edwin Langberg, entrepreneur, inventor, and Holocaust survivor, died Dec. 11, 2006. He was 81. Born in Poland in 1925, Langberg fled the Nazi invasion of eastern Poland...
Andrew E. Lange '80
(Following is an expanded version of a memorial published in the Sept. 22, 2010, issue of PAW.) Andrew Lange, a brilliant astrophysicist and former chair of physics,...
Oliver M. Langenberg '35
Ollie died of natural causes March 28, 2012, in St. Louis, his lifelong home, just seven weeks shy of his 100th birthday. Coming to Princeton from St. Paul’s School, he...
Thomas William Langfitt '48
Princeton, the worlds of medicine, philanthropy, and banking, and the Class of '48 are all the lesser with the death of Tom Langfitt on Aug. 7, 2005.Tom did it all. He...
Arthur Sheridan Langlie '52
Art died of a stroke May 24, 2002, at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Still active in his law practice, he learned from his children that he had won his final case...
John D. Langlois Jr. '64 *74
Jack Langlois died Aug. 19, 2010, after a lengthy battle with gallbladder cancer. He was truly a Princetonian in the world’s service. Born Oct. 8, 1942, in Glen Cove,...
Van Curtis Langston '76
Van Curtis Langston was born in Seattle Jan. 3, 1952, and died there Jan. 29, 2008. He entered Princeton from Chief Sealth High School with the Class of 1974 and...
Robert B. Langworthy '40
Born during a snowstorm, this stalwart was still going to his law office just weeks before his death March 6, 2011. A lifelong resident of Kansas City, Mo., Bob...
Michael F. Lanham '60
Mike Lanham died May 13, 2008, of pulmonary effusion and kidney cancer. Born in Santa Monica, Calif., he was a resident of Santa Barbara. At Princeton, Mike was a...
Robert Sampson Lanier '31
Robin Lanier died Sept. 9, 1998. He prepared at Cambridge H.S. and Stony Brook School. At Princeton he was chairman of the Undergraduate Library Committee, and a member...
David Marsden Laning '48
David Laning died May 10, 1998, in Hyannis, Mass., after a long battle with emphysema. David and Nancy, whom he married in 1950, were longtime residents of Harwich...
Robert Kingman Lanza '64
We were saddened to learn of the death of Bob Lanza July 31, 2006, in Laguna Woods, Calif. A graduate of Glen Ellen High School in suburban Chicago, Bob entered...
Robert Kingman Lanza '64
We were saddened to learn of the death of Bob Lanza July 31, 2006, in Laguna Woods, Calif. A graduate of Glen Ellen High School in suburban Chicago, Bob entered...
C. Wesley Lapha '36
At 85, Wes died Oct. 13, 2000, at home in Bethlehem, Pa.He graduated from Pittsford [N.Y.] H.S. At Princeton he majored in psychology, graduating with honors. A few days...
William F. Laporte '36
Bill died at his home in NYC, Sept. 10, 2001. He was 88. At Princeton he majored in political science and was a member of Elm Club. In 1938 he received his MBA from...
Henry L. Laquer *48
Henry Laquer, a scientist who worked for the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 30 years, died Oct. 9, 2010. He was 90. Born in Germany, Laquer completed his secondary...
Daniel Irving Larkin '42
Daniel Larkin, teacher, actor, and writer, died June 16, 2006, in Amherst, N.Y. A graduate of Nichols School in Buffalo, he achieved honors in English at Princeton,...
Frank Yoakum Larkin '37
Frank died May 16, 2004, in Greenwich, Conn., of heart failure.He prepared at Lawrenceville, majored in history, played on championship tennis teams, and was a member of...
George Brandreth Larkin '19
GEORGE BRANDRETH LARKIN died May 19, 1991, at the age of 94, in Charlottesville, Va. George was born April 22 1897, in Ossining, N.Y. He was a graduate of St.George's...
James D. Larkin '53
Tip Larkin died Mar. 19, 1996, of prostate cancer, a disease that if detected early enough, his daughter Shannon points out, is treatable. Tip's family urges all...
Lawrence Larkin '26
LARRY LARKIN DIED Nov. 21, 1993, at age 90 in Tallahassee, Fla. A graduate of Culver Military Academy, Larry left Princeton after our sophomore year to make a career of...
Donald James Larmett '46
Don Larmett died June 26, 1997, in Pittsburgh, Pa., after three days in hospital.He entered Princeton in June 1942, after high school in Havertown, Pa., and Weston,...
William M. Larrabee '25
Businessman, environmentalist, and retired executive of AT&T, William M. Larrabee died Aug. 31, 2000, at Fairfax, Va. He was 97.William was a longtime resident of Great...
Nye R. Larrimer '58
Nye died Oct. 28, 2010, at his home in Columbus, Ohio. He came to Princeton from Columbus Academy. He majored in psychology, ate at Tiger Inn, and was a member of the...
Terrence William Larrimer '69
The class records with a heavy heart the June 24, 2008, death of Terry Larrimer. Senior partner of Larrimer & Larrimer in Columbus, Ohio, Terry represented injured...
Jack Larsen '42 *45
Jack Larsen, father of 12, progressively a physicist, engineering administrator, patent lawyer, and educator, died at home in Des Plaines, Ill., Aug. 2, 2003, from...
Olai E Larsen '32 *34
LARRY LARSEN DIED Dec. 23, 1993, in a Portland, Maine, hospital following an operation. Larry spent two years at the graduate college, leaving Princeton in 1934 with an...
William George Larsen '41
On Sept. 26, 1995, the class lost one of its most popular members with the death of Bill Larsen.Bill grew up in Lima, Ohio, and attended Lawrenceville School. At...
Richard Charles Larson '48 *49
Dick died Dec. 13, 2005, in Charlottesville, Va. He was 80.A native of Brooklyn and graduate of Brooklyn Prep, Dick joined us in 1945 after a year in the Army. He...
Nicholas H. Larzelere '37
NICK LARZELERE DIED Mar. 3, 1991, of emphysema, leaving a daughter Nancy Puff of Mission Hills, Kan. and a son Townley of El Dorado Hills, Calif., as well as four...
Garland Miller Lasater '29
Gar died in his native Texas Aug. 18, 1997. He had prepared for college at Andover. At Princeton he was in Ivy Club.He was president and general manager of Falfurias...
Thomas Miller Lasater '33
Tom Lasater died on May 7, 2001, at his home on the Lasater Ranch near Matheson, Colo. He was 90.He was a lifelong steward of nature and the founder of the Beefmaster...
Charles Bishop Lascelles '40
CHARLIE DIED JUNE 21, 1991, in Buffalo, N.Y., losing out to throat cancer. He submitted a 50th year book contribution but did not attend the reunion. Entering Princeton...
William Lewis Lashar '56
Bill died March 18, 2004, in Miami, with his family at his side.Born in Bridgeport, Conn., he was a graduate of Deerfield Academy. He attended Princeton for a year...
Lowell Stotts Lashbrook '48 *54
Lowell died July 17, 2004, in Lawrence, Kan. He was 77.Lowell grew up in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Western High School. At Princeton he belonged to Court...
John Cobbs Lewis Laslie '39
WIDELY KNOWN BANKER and financial consultant, John died June 13, 1992, at his home in Cocoa, Fla., following a long and valiant struggle against cancer.Active in...
Grover Victor Lassen Jr. '43
GROVER DIED at his home in Sarasota, Fla., May 17, 1992, of colon cancer. He was 71.In 1946, Grover joined Ballard Oil Co., of Hartford, Conn., founded by his father. He...
Raymond A. Last '50
Belatedly, we learned that Ray died Oct. 12, 1996. Born in Brooklyn, he graduated from the Peddie School, where he was captain of the football team and student-body...
James L. Latchum '40
With some sort of prescience, we called him "Colonel" and that, among many other titles, was one Jim Latchum attained before his death Jan. 31, 2004.He prepared at...
Charles Latham Jr. '39
Charlie died Oct. 31, 2010, at Kendal at Hanover, a continuing-care retirement community in Hanover, N.H., 14 miles from his ancestral home in Thetford, Vt. After...
Hugh Leroy Latham '40
Hugh, our self-described "quiet rolling stone" died July 10, 2004, in Still River, Mass., the location of his beloved Saint Benedict Priory.He prepared at Solebury...
George Richard Lathan '48
George Lathan died Sept. 22, 1999. He was 76. A longtime resident of Charleston, S.C., George's early years were in Walton, N.Y., where he graduated from the local high...
John Sargent Lathrop '44
John died July 9, 2007, in Fishers, Ind., outside his hometown of Indianapolis. He was 84. He came to us from the Park School in Indianapolis, where he was active in...
Wallace C. Latour '46
WALLACE CHARLES LATOUR died Apr. 11, 1992, in Beverly, Mass., after a long and debilitating illness. Wally was born in New York and graduated from Andover in 1942, along...
Frank W. Latson '47 *49
FRANK LATSON died Sept. 21, 1991, of an aortic embolism. Frank was born in N.Y.C. and came to us in Jan. 1944 from Phillips Exeter Academy. He served with the Navy as a...
Theodore Von Hermann Laue '39 *44
After a brief illness, Theo died on Jan. 22, 2000, in Worcester, Mass., where, until he retired in 1983, he had been teaching at Clark U. He earned his PhD in history at...
Thomas Lillibridge Wilkin Lauer '23
Our classmate, known on campus as "Box," was born in Port Allegany, Penn., Sept. 24, 1901. He left us Nov. 12, 1990. He grew up in his home town and graduated from the...
John G. Lauff '51
Jack was born Oct. 14, 1929, in Milan, Mich., the son of John and Mary Klein Lauff. He attended the University of Michigan for a year prior to coming to Princeton. Jack...
James Watt Laughlin '34
Jim Laughlin, a former foreign exchange specialist and foreign financial analyst with E.I. du Pont de Nemours, in Wilmington, Del., died Feb. 9, 2001. For the past...
John D. Laupheimer '52
John died of cancer Dec. 19, 2005, in London.A Philadelphia native, he entered Princeton from Germantown Academy, majored in politics, belonged to Cottage Club, and...
Archer B. Laurence '31
ON CHRIMMAS, WE LOST another classmate. Archer Laurence died Dec. 25, 1990, in his 83rd year, after a long and courageous struggle with cancer. He was a member of the...
George F. Lauritzen '37
SOYBEAN MOGUL George Lauritzen died May 31, 1992, of cancer complications. His wife, Jay, whom he married in 1936, died in 1987. His son Peter P. '62 and grandson...
John R. Lauritzen '40
John died at his Omaha, Neb., home on July 21, 2000, from health problems stemming from a stroke in 1996.John was a native of Minneapolis, preparing for Princeton at the...
Lincoln Weil Lauterstein '38
Lincoln Lauterstein died Feb. 12, 1998, his 81st birthday, in Rockport, Mass.Linc prepared at Woodmere Academy and Mercersburg. At Princeton he majored in English and...
Donald A. Lautman *57
DON LAUTMAN, astronomer and teacher, at the age of 61, died in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 9, 199 1, after surgery and a protracted illness. Dr. Lautman was born in Helena,...
John D. Lavagnino '59
John died in California on May 6, 1996. We learned of his death from the Social Security Death Index. His last known residence was LA.John was born in Pasadena, and...
John Duncan Law '45
John Law died on June 2, 2002, in a nursing home in Greenwich, Conn., of Alzheimer's. John entered Princeton from Pawling School, became president of Campus Club, and...
Mark Lawrence '42
MARK DIED of prostate cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Aug. 24, 1991. An awardwinning copywriter, musician, and producer, he spent most of his career...
Merle Lawrence '38 *41
The class lost a distinguished member with Merle's death from heart failure Jan. 29, 2007. He was 91. Merle graduated from the Peddie School. He earned a bachelor's in...
Philip L. Lawrence Jr. '44
Jack died April 26, 2012, at home in Chatham Township, N.J., his lifelong home. A graduate of Lawrenceville, Jack played JV hockey at Princeton, where he majored in...
Richard Wesley Lawrence Jr. '31
Dick died on Feb. 6, 2002, in Elizabethtown, N.Y. He was 91.He was a graduate of the Riverdale School, Princeton, and Columbia Law School. Dick practiced law for six...
George A. Lawry '44
George died July 19, 2011, in his lifelong hometown of Emsworth, Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh. Known as the “pistol” in high school for his athletic talents, he starred...
Carl D. Laws Jr. '55
died Jan. 1, 2010, in Des Plaines, Ill. Born in Brooklyn, he prepared for Princeton at Lawrenceville. He started with the Class of 1953. After freshman year,...
Thurston V. Lawshe '22
THURSTON ("FAT") LAWSHE died March 26, 1990, at age of 91. He was born Dec. 24,1898, at Newark, NJ. He lived in Waterbury, Conn. He was the end of a Princeton '22 bund;...
Frederick R. Lawson '36
Fred died at home March 21, 2005. He was 92.Born and raised in Boston, Fred graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. At Princeton he majored in political science; was on...
John B. Lawson '50
John died July 10, 2006, in Washington, D.C., from a noncancerous lung infection. He was a literary editor of The Nassau Lit, and was a member of Whig-Clio and Key and...
Spencer Lawton '40
The memorial for Spence by the St. Andrew's Society of Savannah might have put it best: "In Atlanta on Nov. 1, 1999, after a long illness, Spencer Lawton died. Or, as we...
David N. Lawyer Jr. '68
Laws died July 15, 2003, in Santa Barbara of leukemia, which he had fought for seven years. He was 57.Laws came to Princeton from Oxnard [Calif.] HS, where he was a...
Charles F. Laycock '39
Fred died June 9, 2010, at his home in Beverly Hills, Fla. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., he always considered the Wyoming Valley his true home. His first 36 years were...
Fletcher W. Layton '47
Fletch served in the Marines during World War II and again during the Korean War. He emerged as a captain and remained as a lifelong Semper Fi man. He married Margaret...
William A. Lazareth '49
Bill died Feb. 23, 2008, at the age of 79. He prepared for Princeton at New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. At Princeton, he majored in history. Bill was a...
Morris Samuel Lazaron Jr. '38
Mike Lazaron died Feb., 15, 1996, at his Norfolk, Va., home, where he had lived since 1949.He came to Princeton from the Park School in Baltimore. He was v.p. of Court...
Gilbert Lea '36
Gil’s father was Langdon “Biffy” Lea 1896, longtime Tiger football coach. Gil’s brothers were Frank Lea ’27 and Langdon Lea Jr. ’32. Gil was an All-American end on our...
John Gilbert Lea '66
JOHN GILBERT LEA, known to family and friends as "Biff," died by his own hand May 15, 1992, in Portland, Me.A thirdgeneration Princetonian raised in Princeton, Biff...
Joseph Tatnall Lea Jr. '36
TAT DIED of congestive heart failure Mar. 15, 1994. He prepared at Cartaret Academy and the Peddie School, and left us midway through junior year.During WWII, he served...
Langdon Lea Jr. '32
Lang Lea died Jan. 8, 1999, Princeton Medical Center, having been in poor health for a number of years.Most of us remember that in senior year he was voted the best...
Solomon Leader *52
Solomon Leader, a professor emeritus of mathematics at Rutgers, died Aug. 13, 2011. He was 85. Leader served in the Army from 1944 to 1946, and completed his bachelor’s...
Leroy R. Leaf '46
Roy Leaf, a West Orange, N.J., native, died Feb. 11, 2004, at his recent home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, of diabetes and cancer.Entering Princeton in 1942 to major in...
Frederic Leake Jr. '39
Ted died July 7, 2000, in Beaufort, S.C., where he had moved after he retired from a 40-year association with NL Industries (National Lead) located in Charleston, W.Va....
Frank W. Leary '36
Frank died in Paris June 21, 2003; he was 88.He prepared at the Hun School. At Princeton he majored in history and was undergraduate treasurer of Court Club. In 1940...
Herbert Fairfax Leary Jr. '32
FAX LEARY, one of our most distinguished lawyers, died at his home in Villanova, Penn., May 17, 1990. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton and from the Harvard Law...
Robert Sidney Lebair '46
Robert Lebair died of Alzheimer’s disease June 20, 2008, at the Foulkeways Retirement Community in Gwynedd Valley, Pa. Bob came to Princeton from Jenkintown High School...
Edward Potter Lebens '37
GENTLE GIANT ED LEBENS died of lung cancer on Sept. 11, 1993. He was a retired director and V.P. of The First Boston Corp., NYC, where he worked as an investment...
Christian D. Lebey '48
“David,” as he wished to be called in his native Atlanta, died April 16, 2011. He was a graduate of McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn. At Princeton he dined at...
Neil Fremont Lebhar '35
Neil died at his winter home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., Feb. 11, 2002.He prepared for Princeton at Blair Academy in Blairstown, N.J., where he played baseball, was in...
Robert Alden Lebhar '61
Bob Lebhar died Jan. 23, 2004, after a brief illness.Born in NYC, Bob came to Princeton from Blair Academy. At Princeton he ate at Tower, sang in the Glee Club, and...
Willis A. Lebourveau '49 *50
Will died June 18, 2008. He was 82. He prepared for Princeton at Somerville (N.J.) High School and served in the Army in the European theater from 1943 to 1945. At...
Philip Leboutillier Jr. '38
An outstanding member of our class, Phil died Dec. 10, 1995, in Toledo, Ohio, his home area since college days.Phil prepared at Choate. At Princeton he majored in...
Thomas Quinn Lebrun '53
Tom, who was born in New York City but vacationed in Mexico and eventually made Puerto Vallarta his permanent home, died of melanoma Oct. 23, 2008, at Dallas’ Baylor...
Albert Graham Lee III '38
Albert "Bud" Lee of West Hartford, Conn., died Jan. 11, 1999, at Hartford Hospital. Bud was born in Steubenville, Ohio, and prepared at Lawrenceville. At Princeton, he...
Augustine K. K. Lee *68
Gus died Mar. 11, 1997, in Vancouver, Canada, after a brief battle with cancer. He was 56.After completing his undergraduate degree at Ottawa U., Gus continued his...
Charles Herbert Lee Jr. '49
CHARLEY SUCCUMBED to cancer on Sept. 7, 1989, at his home in Washington, D.C., at age of 62. Born May 17, 1927, in Morristown, NJ, Charley prepared for college at...
E. Brooke Lee Jr. '40
The class' 50th-reunion P-rade in 1990 was energized by the presence of Beezie and his new family: his second, wife, Debbie, and their children, Sammy and Regina.On Aug....
E. Brooke Lee Jr. '40
Brooke died Aug. 20, 2004, of congestive heart failure at his home in Chevy Chase, Md.He graduated from St. Paul's School in New Hampshire and, like four Lees before...
Elliott H. Lee '16
GABY LEE DIED in Medford, NJ., June 17, 1990. Born in Ridgeway, Colo., Mar. 2, 1895, he graduated from Princeton as a Phi Beta Kappa in economics. Gaby once served as...
H. Vernon Lee Jr. '31
VERN DIED June 8, 1993, in Bradenton, Fla. He prepared at Morristown H.S. While at Princeton, he was a member of the class basketball team' University Club, and the...
James Wideman Lee II '28
James Wideman Lee II died Sept. 5, 1999. A large part of his life was devoted to Princeton and his class. Before college he prepared at Hotchkiss. After college he...
John E. Lee '44
John E. Lee died of a stroke July 11, 1995, in Sarasota, Fla., where he and his wife, Florence, lived during the winter months. He was 73.John came to us from...
Jung Kong Lee '50
JUNG KONG LEE died at the age of 65 in Kansas City, Mo. on Jan. 31, 1990, following a lengthy illness.J.K. was born in Hong Kong and served in the Chinese Army during...
Richard M. Lee *51
Richard Lee, a retired major general in the Army, died Nov. 24, 2011. He was 94. Lee graduated from the University of Maryland in 1940, and spent a year and a half at...
Shelby Rees Lee Jr. '42
Shelby, grandson of James Lee Jr. 1853, died Dec. 30, 2005, in a hospice in Memphis. He prepared at the Harvey School and Hotchkiss. At Princeton he majored in...
Susan G. Lee *88
Susan G. Lee, a partner in the prominent Washington, D.C., law firm of Arnold & Porter, died of cancer July 12, 2009. She was 49. Lee received a bachelor’s degree from...
Theodore Hicks Lee '42
Ted died Jan. 4, 1999, in his apartment in NYC's Stuyvesant Town. He suffered asthma for many years and was battling non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the time of his death. He...
Walter Ashton Lee '39
Ash died Oct. 23, 1999, in Dillon, Colo., while drinking a martini at the Yacht Club banquet. Denver had been home to him ever since he moved there in 1965 as an...
William States Lee III '51
Bill Lee, retired chairman and CEO of the Duke Power Co., died of cardiac arrest in NYC July 10, 1996. He was known worldwide as a leading authority and advocate for...
Geoffrey B. Leech *49
Geoffrey Leech, a retired Canadian government geologist, died April 17, 2012, while walking in the woods. He was 93. Leech graduated from the University of British...
Robert William Lees '41
Bob died April 29, 2004, after a long illness.A native of Haddon Heights, N.J., he came to Princeton from Moorestown [N.J.] Friends School and majored in history. He...
Edmund A. LeFevre *49
Edmund A. LeFevre of Wilmington, Del., died April 27, 2006. He was 81. After graduating from Allendale School in 1942, LeFevre served in the Army Air Corps as an...
Eugene S. Leggett II '50
Gene died June 8, 2012, in Warrenton, Va., of congestive heart failure. After graduating from Culver Military Academy, he joined the Army and was in numerous South...
John Dwight Leggett Jr. '28
Jack Leggett died Sept. 27, 1995. He was v.p. of the class at the time of his death. He had been active throughout his life in Princeton affairs until declining health...
Robert Vernon Leggett '72
Bob Leggett died Sept. 13, 2004, in Columbus, Ohio, after a valiant battle with cancer.Born in Columbia, Miss., Bob graduated from Glenville High School in Cleveland,...
George Edward Leh '24
GEORGE EDWARD LEH died Nov. 25, 1992, in Allentown, Penn., where he had lived all his life. Eddy was a senior partner of a department store chain, H. Leh & Co., that was...
Orin Lehman '42
Orin Lehman, New York State's longtime parks steward, died of pneumonia Feb. 22, 2008, at his Manhattan home. Orin was a great-grandson of Mayer Lehman, a founder of...
Stockton Lehmann '55
Stockton died of cancer Dec. 27, 2003, at his home in The Villages, Fla.Stockton was reared in Glendale, Ohio, and graduated from the Lawrenceville School, where he was...
Roland E. Lehr '64
Roland died peacefully in Norman, Okla., July 16, 2003, after a long battle with brain cancer. He was 60.Born in Quincy, Ill., Roland graduated from Rossford High School...
Carl K. Leibert '49
Carl, who had been in poor health for several years, died April 15, 2005. He was 79.Carl prepared at Bethlehem (Pa.) High School, and at Princeton majored in electrical...
Robert Leibowitz '41
Bob died Jan. 27, 2009, after a long bout with Alzheimer’s disease. He came to Princeton from James Madison High School Brooklyn, N.Y. At Princeton, Bob majored...
Arthur Daniel Leidheiser '50
Art Leidheiser died of lymphoma on Aug. 19, 1998. He was 71.Art prepared for Princeton at Bogata H.S., in Maywood, N.J., where he played in the school orchestra and the...
John Philip Leidy Jr. '72
John died July 14, 1997. He was born in Reading, Pa., Nov. 29, 1950, and attended Reading H.S., where he was active in soccer, various clubs, and the honor society, and...
Parker Leimbach '31
PARMR LEIMBACH died Feb. 27,1990. He came to us from Baltimore, Md. Leimy, as he was known to his many friends and classmates, was part of the large and versatile group...
Donald M. Leith '57
Mac died Jan. 30, 2010.He was born in Cambridge, Mass., and attended the Landon School in Bethesda, Md. At Princeton, he majored in history and joined Cap and Gown. He...
Fontaine Lemaistre III '58
Fontaine LeMaistre III died of a heart attack Mar. 18, 1996, while skiing with his family in Aspen, Colo. He was 59.Sonny joined our freshman class from the Hill School,...
Allen Howard Lemmon Jr. '42
Al died May 22, 2007, in Hilton Head, S.C., complications from surgery a month after the death his second wife, the former Lois Jane Troy. Al came to us by way...
David B. Lenahan '98
David Lenahan died Nov. 26, 2010, at Albany (N.Y.) Memorial Hospital after a battle with cancer. He was 34. Born in Schenectady, N.Y., Dave came to Princeton from...
Robert Van W. Lengen '40
Bob "Bronc" Van Lengen, known to most of his classmates as a brilliant football runner and colorful campus figure, died July 23, 1995. At Princeton he studied Greek,...
Frederick Lennig Jr. '32
Fred died May 10, 2003. He prepared at Episcopal Academy. At Princeton, he was a member of Colonial Club. He roomed junior and senior years with John Ross.He is survived...
Hillard Joseph Lenox '24
JOE, WHO WAS better known by his nickname, Natty, died Apr. 18, 1992, at his home in Manhasset, N.Y., after a series of strokes. He attended high school in Ogdensburg,...
Norton Blackstone Leo Jr. '44
Bud Leo died Dec. 27, 2007, in Southbury, Conn. He was 85. He came to us from Roosevelt High in Yonkers, N.Y., where he was president of his senior class. He majored in...
Archibald Willard Leonard '39
Archie died Dec. 23, 1998, in Beaufort, S.C., where he and Ann had recently settled after many years in Florida, site of Archie's business in Miami. They moved first to...
Benjamin F. Leonard III *51
Benjamin F. Leonard, a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey from 1943 to 1993, died peacefully Sept. 5, 2008, at home. He was 87. Leonard graduated from Hamilton...
Jimmer M. Leonard '64
Word has reached us that Jimmer Leonard died Aug. 7, 1996, and we have very few details.Jimmer was born in Johnson City, N.Y., and grew up in Wappingers Falls, where he...
Thomas Dimock Leonard Jr. '27
TOM DIED Aug. 28, 1990. For many years he lived in Southampton, L.I., and was happily busy as an architectural and industrial photographer in N.Y.C. To him the business...
Tracy Ann Leonardo '90
Tracy Ann Leonardo of Bellaire, Texas, died peacefully Oct. 29, 2008, at home after living with advanced colon cancer since March 2007. Tracy will be remembered as a...
Galen C.K. Leong '62
Galen died Dec. 26, 2009, of pancreatic cancer at his Honolulu home. He came to us from Punahou School, President Obama’s alma mater. He dined at Key and Seal and...
Richard W. Leopold '33
Richard W. Leopold, known to his family and friends as Dick, died on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23, 2006. He was 94. Born Jan. 6, 1912, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan,...
Harrison Joseph Lerch Jr. '28
HARRY LERCH died July 24, 1992, at the Doylestown (Penn.) Hospital. He was a resident of Pine Run Community. His wife, Helen, was in the health center of Pine Run for a...
Marcus Jay Leschin '34
Mike Leschin, who became dissatisfied with life in retirement and returned to work at age 73, died Feb. 20, 2008, of prostate cancer. He was 95. In retirement, Mike...
James Hill Leslie '52
Jim Leslie died at his home in Holmes Beach, Fla., on June 14, 1999, from complications following heart surgery. His memorial service was held at his beloved Minnetonka...
William Leslie Jr.
RETIRED INSURANCE executive Bill Leslie passed away Aug. 22,1990, in San Diego, Calif. After WWII service as a naval aviator and a year at Columbia Law School, Bill...
James S. Lester '45 *48
Jim Lester died May 17, 2011. Jim was a “dyed-in-the-wool” alumnus of Williams and received a bachelor’s degree from that institution in 1947. According to Princeton ...
Joel Charles Leuchter '52
Joel Leuchter died following a massive heart attack on Feb. 7, 1999, while visiting his brother, Ben Zion, in Key Biscayne, Fla. Joel had driven from his home in...
Harry Henry Leveen '36
Harry died of heart failure Dec. 28, 1996. He was 82. He prepared at Lawrenceville School, and at Princeton he majored in biology. In 1940 he received his medical degree...
Peter A. Leventritt '37
World-caliber bridge player and winner of 13 national titles, Pete Leventritt died Dec. 6, 1997, of complications from diabetes, leaving his tuna-fishing expert wife...
Gary David Levey '56
Gary David Levey died Dec. 31, 2007, of pancreatic cancer in Naples, Fla. He was born in Winthrop, Mass., and came to Princeton from Winthrop ...
Harold Daniel Levi '31
HAROLD DIED Aug. 29, 1992. He prepared at Peddie School and Franklin School in New York. During freshman year, he roomed with Dave Kreider. After graduation, he received...
Mark Levin '48
After a long battle with cancer, Mark died Aug. 16, 2012, in Pittsburgh. He was 85. He was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in New York City, and graduated from the...
Jack Levine *34
Jack Levine, a retired professor of mathematics, died June 9, 2005. He was 98.Levine graduated from UCLA in 1929 and enrolled the following year at Princeton. He...
Jerome P. Levine '62
Jerome P. Levine, professor of mathematics at Brandeis University and a prominent theorist in topology, died April 8, 2006, of lymphatic cancer. He was 68. After...
Richard J. Levine '60
Richard died April 14, 2011, in his home in Washington D.C., from complications of lymphoma. Richard came to Princeton from the Horace Mann School in New York City....
Robert M. Levine *67
Bob died Apr. 1, 2002, of complications from brain cancer. Bob was a leading authority on Brazilian history and culture at the U. of Miami, and a prolific writer on Cuba...
Samuel Horace Levine '30
MAY 19, 1993, our class lost one of its most loyal, warmhearted, generous, and faithfulinreunionattendance members. Football prowess surely helped to make "Bruise"...
Henry E. Levinson *76
Henry Levinson, professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) since 1982, died Jan. 4, 2010, of complications from multiple...
Seymour Barton Levinson '48
Buddy, as he was known to his family, died May 29, 2005. He was 78 and a lifelong Norfolk, Va., resident.Buddy was involved with crew and fencing at Princeton. As his...
Alan B. Levy '60
Alan died Oct. 21, 2011, after a heroic but brief struggle with pancreatic cancer. Born in Titusville, Pa., he graduated from high school there, where he had been...
George B. Levy '47
George (sometimes known as Moe) died of cancer Aug. 4, 1996. He came to Princeton in 1943 from the U. of Pittsburgh in the Navy's V12 program and stayed on after the...
James Allen Levy '54
He was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., and graduated from New Rochelle High School. At Princeton, he majored in chemistry, was a member of Key and Seal Club, and was active...
LESTER Levy '42
Bud died May 8, 2004, in Amherst, Mass., of head injuries from a fall.On the nationally ranked track relay team at Mercersburg [Pa.] Academy, Bud, sports maven that he...
Norman A. Levy *28
Norman died at home in Los Angeles Dec. 21, 2005, after a brief illness. He was 98. Norman was a pioneer in the development of a more humanistic, transactional...
David B. Lewin *58
David B. Lewin, relatively unknown yet influential musical theorist and composer, died May 5, 2003, of heart disease in Cambridge, Mass. He was 69.Lewin studied piano...
Lawrence S. Lewin '59
Larry died April 29, 2012, of liver cancer at home in Chevy Chase, Md. Born in New York City, Larry attended Jamaica High School, where he presided over the student...
Alexander Graham Lewis '35
Alec died at his home on Gramercy Park, NYC, Aug. 20, 1999, at age 88. He prepared for Princeton at Newark and Mercersberg Academies, participating in gymnastics, school...
Archibald Ross Lewis '36
ARCH DIED Feb. 4, 1990 of a heart attack in Tucson, Ariz. He prepared at the Taft School. At Princeton he majored in history, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and from...
Arthur R. Lewis '36
Arthur died March 8, 2005, in White Plains, N.Y.A graduate of Poly Prep in Brooklyn, he majored in economics at Princeton, played polo and was president of Gateway Club....
E. Grey Lewis '59
Grey died of cancer Nov. 2, 2005, at Inova Alexandria (Va.) Hospital. Born in Atlantic City, Grey attended the Peddie School, where he was president of the student...
Edgar Sanders Lewis '43
Sandy died of lymphoma July 24, 2005. He was 83.A Columbus, Ohio, native, he came to Pittsburgh at 14, when his father was named president of Jones & Laughlin Steel Co....
Elmore W. Lewis Jr. '51
Ted was born Aug. 24, 1929, the son of E.W. Lewis and Therese (Kelly) Lewis. He attended Bronxville (N.Y.) High School. At Princeton he held the Class of 1894...
Frank Hawkins Lewis Sr. '43
Knobby died at his home in Bay City, Texas, June 6, 2003; he was 83.A lifelong resident of Bay City and Matagorda County, he prepped at Woodberry Forest School in...
George Withrow Lewis '51
George died Nov. 8, 2002, of a pulmonary embolism. He came to Princeton from Montclair [N.J.] HS and majored in sociology. He was a member of Terrace Club, an associate...
Gwendolyn L. Lewis *75
Gwendolyn Lewis, a professional photographer who had been a sociology professor, died of cancer Feb. 8, 2012. She was 68. Lewis was a 1965 graduate of Reed College....
H. Walker H. Lewis '25
Walker Lewis, who died May 19, 1999, was born in Hoboken, N.J., in 1903. He was directly descended from Fielding Lewis, the husband of George Washington's sister Betty....
Harlow S. Lewis II '54
Harlow Lewis died May 4, 2008. A graduate of Avonworth High School, he majored in English at Princeton, was a member of Cloister Inn, and roomed with Dave Bradley and...
Herbert Reed Lewis '47
HERBERT LEWIS DIED of heart failure in NYC Apr. 16, 1993.He was born in Rochester, N.Y., and attended the Harley School in that city and the Asheville School in North...
Irwin Albert Lewis '43
BUD DIED Aug. 18,1990, at the Glendale Adventist Medical Center of liposarcoma, a form of cancer. He was 68.A graduate of Great Neck (L.I.) High School, he was a member...
John B. Lewis '64
Sadly, we learned that John Birt Lewis died May 13, 2010. He had very little contact with 1964 and Princeton over the years and very little is known about his life. ...
Robert C. Lewis '40
After several years of failing health caused by a debilitating stroke, Bob died Nov. 14, 2003, at the home of his daughter, Sandra How, in Vero Beach, Fla.After...
Robert D. Lewis '60
Bob died July 13, 2012, from complications of leukemia following surgery. He born in Pittsburgh and prepared for Princeton at Mount Lebanon High School, where he...
Robert Wilson Lewis Jr. '24
ROBERT WILSON LEWIS JR., retired attorney and resident of S. Pasadena for more than 30 years, died Sept. 17, 1991. After graduation from Princeton and then Harvard...
Stephen H. Lewis '31
Stephen H. Lewis died at his home in Rye, N.Y., Aug. 27, 1996. He was 86. He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Desna Kramer Lewis, two sons, Dr. Stephen H. Jr. '58...
Thomas A. Lewis '36
TOM DIED Mar. 13, 1994, after a series of medical complications. Born and raised in Norfolk, Va., he attended Woodbury Forest School, which he loved. At Princeton, he...
Thomas Burton Lewis '51
Tom died of cancer on May 21,1989, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore. He retired from I.B.M. in 1987 after 33 years and was director of the computer center at the...
Thornton Lewis Jr. '35
THE REVEREND THORNTON LEWIS JR., retired United Methodist minister, died of cancer in Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 28, 1989. Rev. Lewis was pastor emeritus of the Grand...
William Draper Lewis Jr. '26
We just received word of William's death in 2000. William lived in Blue Bell, Pa. At Princeton, he was a member of Court Club.Draper received his master's in education...
Winslow Lewis Jr. '59
Our class will not be the same. Princeton will not be the same. We have lost Winslow Lewis. Enthusiastic, irreverent, unpredictable, irrepressible, loyal,...
Darwin M. Ley '40
Dar died March 26, 2011. One of our most loyal classmates, he also was praised for his pleasant personality. Spending his youth in a series of cities — St. Louis;...
Norman Wadsworth Ley '45
Norm Ley died Feb. 25, 2008. Norm entered Princeton from Westfield (N.J.) High School. His Princeton career was interrupted for service with the Navy V-12 program at...
Dennis Albert Libby *69
DENNIS ALBERT LIBBY *69, distinguished musicologist, scholar, writer, and teacher, died suddenly on July 4, 1989, after a brief illness. He was 50 years old. He received...
Robert Maurice Lichenstein '48
BOB LiCHENSTEIN died Sept, 7, 1991. He was 64.Bob came to Princeton in July 1944 by way of New York Military Academy and with experience as an undersized, ferocious,...
Joseph Stoner Lichty '29
Joe died on Oct. 10, 2002. He prepared for Princeton at Mercersburg. At Princeton, he played soccer and lacrosse, was in the band, Glee Club, choir, Triangle Club, and...
Roger H. Lichty '67
Our dear friend Roger Lichty died Oct. 6, 2000, of complications from heart attack.At Princeton, Roger established solid, long-lasting friendships with his classmates...
Donald Macy Liddell '28
Donald died Oct. 17, 1999. He graduated from the Pingry School in Elizabeth, N.J., before entering Princeton. His major was economics and he was a counselor at...
Irwin Chester Lieb '48
CHET LIEB died in Pasadena on May 23, 1992, after a long illness but just before his magnum Opus, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE: A PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY OF TIME, was...
Daniel Parke Lieblich '38
Dan died at his home in Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 11, 2003. Born and raised in Paterson, N.J., Dan prepared at the Hun School. At Princeton he majored in politics, earning...
Channing Liem *46
Channing Liem, emeritus professor of politics at SUNY-New Paltz and activist for Korean unification, died of a stroke Jan. 24, 1996. He was 86.Born in North Korea, he...
Mario Lierana *43
Mario Llerena, a Cuban writer and early supporter of Fidel Castro, who broke with him over Castro’s move to communism, died Dec. 10, 2006, in Miami. He was 93. Fluent...
Karl M. Light '47
Karl, theater and television actor, former real-estate broker, champion and defender of affordable housing, died May 20, 2012, in Brooklyn. He had struggled for...
William Wayne Light '38
Bill Light died Mar. 21, 1996, at Huggins Memorial Hospital in Wolfeboro, N.H. after long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.Coming from Haverford School, where he was...
Edwin Thomas Lightcap '51
A Jersey native, Ed was born Feb. 8, 1927, in North Bergen; he died Nov. 16, 2005, in Whiting after a long illness. He was a World War II Navy veteran and came to us...
Edwin Allen Lightner '30
AL LIGHTNER died Sept. 15, 1990 in Belfast, Me. With his death the nation lost a distinguished Foreign Service officer and the Class lost one of its most illustrious...
Jesse Warren Lilienthal '42
Word was received recently that Jesse died July 4, 1997, in San Mateo, Calif. After spending some 10 years at the U. of Chicago, following the war, he retired to his...
John A. Lilly '55
John Lilly, the man dubbed “our walking encyclopedia and dictionary,” was born Jan. 2, 1934, to Frances C. and Martin L. Lilly in Boone County, W.Va. Coming from the...
Roy S. Lilly *65
Roy Sherman Lilly died of cancer Dec. 12, 2003. He was 63.A distinguished member of the psychology department at Kent State U., Lilly retired from that faculty four...
Charles Foster Limberg '39
On Dec. 28, 1997, after a long bout of illness, Charlie died at the Mari de Villa Retirement Home in West St. Louis, Mo. Until his retirement in the late 1970s he...
Edward A. Limberg Jr. '37
Inveterate reuner, with a whimsical sense of humor, Eddie Limberg died June 29, 1996, leaving wife Sally of 55 years, three daughters, Mary, Anne, and Leslie, and two...
John E. Lincoln '50
John died of heart failure Aug. 1, 2009, in Hanover, N.H. He graduated from Deerfield. After two years as an Army sergeant he entered Princeton, where he belonged to...
Peter G. Lincoln '65
Pete Lincoln died Aug. 6, 2000, in Manhattan from a recurrence of renal cell carcinoma, which he had battled since 1986. Born in Philadelphia, he graduated from...
Thomas R. Lincoln '37
LAWYER, SHIPPING EXECUTIVE and author of our 50th yearbook, Tom Lincoln died Aug. 4, 1993, in Greenwich, Conn., of respiratory failure. He is survived by his wife of 23...
William Edgar Linden Jr. '52
Having survived major back surgery and a near-fatal blood disorder, Bill devoutly hoped to attend our 50th reunion. Many classmates remember his enthusiastic presence....
E. Burrell Lindsay '39
Burrell died Dec. 19, 2003, in Cleveland Heights, where he lived since retirement.Except for Army service in the Pacific, where he was awarded a Purple Heart, Burrell...
James D. Lindsay '50
Jim died Jan. 14, 2009, in New York City. He graduated from the Nichols School in his hometown of Buffalo, N.Y. After serving in the Navy from 1944 to...
James H. Lindsey '55
Jim Lindsey, the only son of Maude and Jim Lindsey, was born in El Paso May 21, 1933. After a memorable life of accomplishment and service, he was struck by...
Andrew O. Linehan *84
Andrew Linehan, an expert on wind power, died Jan. 8, 2010, of metastatic melanoma. He was 54. Linehan received a bachelor’s degree from Reed College in 1978, and from...
Alfred S.C. Ling '49
Al, our class president, died rather suddenly of a bleeding disorder Sept. 13, 2005. He was 76.He prepared for Princeton at Stuyvesant High School in New York City,...
George Millard Lingua '49
George died May 31, 2000, in Virginia Beach of heart disease. He was 73.He prepared for Princeton at Christian Brothers School in Memphis. At Princeton he majored in the...
John W. Linkhauer '56
John died Aug. 14, 2002, in McKeesport, Pa. A retired attorney, he practiced in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and DC, specializing in patent law. A former employee of US...
William Henry Linkroum Jr. '38
BILL LINKROUM died peaceably at home, 3308 Cove Rd., Jupiter, Fla., on Nov. 4, 1989, after a long period of declining health.A Lawrenceville graduate, he majored in art,...
Clarence Edwin Linville '30
Ed died July 13, 2001, on the eve of his 92nd birthday. He was born in State College, Pa. In college he was a member of Whig Hall and roomed with Tom Frame. Following...
Arthur David Lionberger '24
Arthur Lionberger, known to us as “Art” or “A.D.,” died July 4, 2008, at age 105 in Rochester, Mass. At his death he was not only the oldest resident of Rochester but...
John S. Lionberger Jr. '50
John died Jan. 30, 2006, in St. Louis, a few days after his 79th birthday.Wanting to serve his country, John accelerated through high school so he could graduate early...
Robert J. Lipkin *74
Robert Lipkin, who held the title of distinguished professor of law at Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, Del., died Feb. 18, 2010, after a long illness....
William F. Lipp '32
Bill Lipp died May 14, 1996, in the Episcopal Church Home in Buffalo, N.Y.Upon obtaining his medical degree at the U. of Buffalo, Bill practiced gastroenterology at...
Horace G. Lippincott '57
Horace died Oct. 25, 1999, after a long illness. He resided in Crestline, Calif. At Princeton, Hod was a member of Court Club.After Hod's graduation he entered the...
Job Herbert Lippincott Jr. '32
Herb Lippincott died Jan. 21, 1997, at the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and Islands in Sandwich, Mass.Herb was a prominent attorney in the North Jersey area....
Joseph Wharton Lippincott '37
Joe died Jan. 25, 2003, of respiratory disease at his home in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was 88.He prepared at St. Paul's and majored in English. During WWII, he drove an...
Paul Lippincott '63
PAUL LIPPINCOTT died at his home Apr. 24, 1990. He came to Princeton from St. Paul's School, preceded at Princeton by his father, his brother Walter '61, and his uncle...
William Olier D Lippincott '41
We lost a most illustrious classmate with the death of Bill Lippincott on Nov. 25, 2000.Graduating from St. Georges School, he roomed with Brooks Wall all four years,...
Maxwell Walthour Lippitt Jr. '50
Max Lippitt died June 6, 1998, at his home in Panama City Beach, Fla., of cancer. He was 70.After preparing at Culver, Max majored in chemistry at Princeton and was a...
William Henry Lippitt '39
Bill died Dec. 8, 2000, at Candler Hospital in Savannah, where he had practiced general surgery for 35 years before he retired in 1982. After earning his MD at Johns...
Charles J. Lipscomb '31
THE CLASS HAS RECENTLY LEARNED of the passing of Charlie Lipscomb July 29, 1990. Charlie was one of the group who came to us from Gilman. During freshman and sophomore...
James H. Lipscomb III '50
Jimmy died in Florida April 30, 2004.A native of Florida and a graduate of Woodberry Forest School, Jimmy belonged to Cannon Club and majored in economics at Princeton....
Philip A. Lirio '44
Phil died Dec. 1, 2012, in Vineland, N.J. He graduated from Vineland High School, and at Princeton he majored in chemistry, played intramural football and...
Huyler Louis Lisk '33
Huyler died Aug. 5, 2005, at home. He was 93.Huyler was valedictorian and president of his senior class at Cranford (N.J.) High School. He attended Princeton on a...
Drummond D. Lister '62
Drum died May 25, 2009, in Ottawa, Canada, having suffered a severe stroke in 2000. Born in England, Drum came to us from Upper Canada College in Toronto, where he had...
William Gilder Litchfield '46
On a lucky day for '46, an Army medic discharged Litch for allergies to GI boots. Back on campus in July 1944, he spent countless hours at 305 Nassau Hall as our...
David Kim Litke '81
Dave died from a heart attack on Oct. 29, 2002.He grew up in Anaheim, Calif. He majored in biology and served as Tower Club social chairman. Dave attended the U. of...
E. Robinson Little '25
ROBIN LITTLE died Sept. 27, 1993. He was born in N.Y.C. June 8, 1904, and prepared at Bernard School. At Princeton, he was on the board of the PRINCETON TIGER and the...
G. Daniel Little '51
Dan was born Dec. 18, 1929, in St. Louis and came to Princeton from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. A philosophy major at Princeton, he was president of the...
Robert Forsyth Little III '39
Bob died Aug. 29, 2005, in Oyster Bay, N.Y.Bob received a law degree from Columbia Law School in 1942, then began a tour of military service that lasted until 1950,...
Bradner M. Littlehale '38
Bradner Littlehale died May 18, 2012, at his home in Chatham, N.J. He was 95. Brad was born in Elizabeth, N.J., attended school in Cranford, N.J., where he went through...
George Robertson Livermore Jr. '39
Afflicted with Alzheimer's disease that became steadily worse in the past year, George died Sept. 14, 2005, in a nursing home in Memphis, Tenn.In Memphis he had been in...
Donald Richards Livingston '31
Don was born Apr. 30, 1909, in Cordele, Ga., and died at the Memorial Health Medical Center in Savannah on July 29, 2001. He was 92.He prepared at Georgia Military...
H. Gates Lloyd Jr. '23
H. GATES LLOYD DIED at his apartment in Haverford, Penn., Nov. 11, 1993. He was 92.Gates came to Princeton (where his father, H. G. Lloyd, was a trustee) from St....
H. Gates Lloyd Jr. '27
H. GATES LLOYD died at his apartment in Haverford, Penn., Nov. 11, 1993, at the age of 92.Gates came to Princeton (where his father, H. G. Lloyd, was a trustee) from St....
Robert E. Lloyd Jr. '46
Bob died Apr. 24, 1999, at home in Rumson, N.J. After preparing at Newark Academy, he entered Princeton in 1942, served in the Army with South Pacific duty from 1943-46,...
James Ira de Loache '46
James De Loache died Dec. 19, 2007, in Dallas, Texas, where he had lived his entire life. He entered Princeton from Hotchkiss in June 1942. He joined the Naval Reserve...
Gus Lobo Jr. '26
Gus Lobo, a well-known figure for more than 57 years in the commodities markets, died Dec. 28, 1997, in Andrus Retirement Community at Hastings on Hudson, N.Y. Gus was a...
Francis J. Locke '48
Ed Locke, native of Bayonne, N.J., and graduate of its high school, had life of music. He majored in music at Princeton, where he played in the band and orchestra...
George D. Lockhart '31
George Lockhart died Apr. 5, 1999, of congestive heart failure at his home in Pittsburgh. He was 89.George had an active life. He prepared at Shadyside Academy and then...
W. Kirby Lockhart '78
W. Kirby Lockhart died of a heart attack Apr. 10, 2003.Kirby's hometown was Fort Smith, Ark., where he excelled at football at Northside HS. He set passing records,...
Charles Lockwood '70
Charlie died of cancer March 29, 2012, at his home in Topanga, Calif. Born in Washington, D.C., Charlie majored in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. Charlie...
Justice Lockwood '29
JUSTICE DIED May 7, 1993. He prepared for college at the Nichols School. At Princeton, he was on the hockey team and roomed with Bill Miller sophomore year. After...
Robert Arthur Lockwood '38
BOB LOCKWOOD died Apr. 26, 1993, of inoperable heart problems complicated by diabetes.A Lawrenceville product, he was with us at Princeton for three years, leaving to...
William Noble Lockwood '33
Bill was born in Buffalo on July 4, 1905. He died June 22, 1994. He was 88.Bill majored in geology at Princeton. After graduation he continued his studies in geology and...
Stephen B. Locurcio '58
Steve died Nov. 18, 2010, in Brooksville, Fla. He came to us from Park Ridge High School in Hillsdale, N.J. A biology major, Steve took his meals at Court Club and...
Alexander S. Loeb '50
Al died of leukemia May 28, 2005, the day after his 77th birthday. He was a kind, gentle, and positive man, a human being of unusual charm and good cheer.He came to...
Henry Alfred Loeb '29
Henry died Jan. 27, 1998. He prepared for college at Horace Mann School in NYC.After Princeton he went to Harvard Law School and joined the New York and California bars....
Joel T. Loeb '37
Joel died Jan. 7, 2010, at his home in Jenkintown, Pa. He was 94. Joel grew up next to the Penn campus, but had the good instinct to come to Princeton after...
James David Loebl '48
Jim died of cancer at his Ojai, Calif., home Oct. 19, 2003.Jim loved Princeton and the Class of '48. His wife of 43 years, Dottie, is the daughter of Steven Hirsch '17....
Willis Frederick Loeffel '36 *37
Bill died June 19, 2001. He was 86. He prepared at Dickinson HS in Jersey City, N.J. At Princeton he received two degrees, graduating with honors with a BSE degree in...
Larry James Loeffler '54 *61
LARRY DIED in Durham, N.C., after a courageous battle against Alzheimer's disease, May 7, 1990, the day after his 58th birthday.Larry came to Princeton from Beaver...
Harold A. Loewenheim '32
A leader in the life insurance industry, Harold Loewenheim died Sept. 9, 1998, at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC.After Princeton he began his insurance career as an agent...
Louis Loewenstein '25
LOU LOEWENSTEIN was born in Charleston W.Va. and died on Mar. 12, 1992, at age 88, at his home in Elkins Parks, Philadelphia. Leaving us before graduation, he began his...
Nelson Gilbert Lofstedt *50
NELSON GILBERT LOFSTEDT *50, age 59, died Oct. 29, 1981. He was born Sept. 1, 1922, in West Chelmsford, Mass., but spent most of his formative years in Brattleboro, Vt....
Alexander Lofthouse '31
ALEX DIED May 3, 1993, in Florida. He prepared at Choate School. While at Princeton, he was a member of the gym team, the lacrosse squad, Clio Hall, and Gateway Club....
Harry A. Logan Jr. '47
Prominent businessman, generous philanthropist, ardent opera lover, world traveler, and avid skier—Harry was a man of many interests and talents. He died unexpectedly...
Tracy Harrison Logan '29
Trace died Sept. 26, 1996. He was born in Hunan Province in China, and prepared for college at Kuling School and Hotchkiss. At Princeton he was a top soccer player and...
Victor Wesley Logan '23
THE CLASS of 1923 lost another distinguished member when Vic died Nov. 26, 1990, at Hilton Head, S.C., where he had been living since his retirement from the faculty of...
John A. Logue *76
John Logue, professor of political science at Kent State University, died Dec. 9, 2009, after a month’s illness. He was 62. Logue earned a bachelor’s degree from the...
Frederick Eugene Lombard '34
Fred Lombard, an attorney for Parsons, Canzona, Blair & Warren in Red Bank, N.J., for 25 years, retiring in 1982, died Nov. 25, 2006. The cause, according to his...
Frederick A. London '55
Fred London, a maverick who inspired admiration and love those who knew him, was born Oct. 6, 1934, New York City and, to widespread regret, died Dec. 3, 2011,...
Pierce J. Lonergan '53
Pierce, “Studs,” or “Pete” — one of our best-liked members who knew every ’53er and served two non-consecutive terms as secretary — died Feb. 16, 2012, in Cincinnati...
Carroll Hardy Long '26
It is with sadness that we report the death of Carroll, who died May 10, 2001. Carroll was an outstanding doctor who, as you remember, was given the Achievement Award...
David S. Long '37
Cheerful, friendly, humorous, frequent letter-to-the-editor writer Snapper Long died Sept. 16, 1997, surviving his wife, Ann, and leaving a niece and two...
Henry Coleman Long '19
Henry Coleman Long died on July 31,1989, at a nursing home in Selma, Ala., after a long illness. He was born in Uniontown, Ala., and lived there throughout his life. He...
Littleton Long '39
Tiny died of cancer July 23, 2003, in Burlington, Vt., where he had lived for 53 years.He was well known in the area for his small, elderly apple orchard — "elderly"...
Louis Long Jr. '23
THE CLASS OF 1923 lost a distinguished and highly honored member when Louis died on Nov. 22, 1992. e was born on Jan. 3, 1903, and came to Princeton in 1919. On campus,...
Robert Wood Long '33
Bob Long died Dec. 9. 1995, in Colorado Springs, Colo. He prepared at Kansas City Country Day School. Bob was a swimmer on the freshman and varsity teams, president of...
William Henry Long Jr. '61
Bill died unexpectedly of a heart attack April 14, 2010, at his home in Boulder, Colo. Born and raised in York, Pa., Bill came to Princeton from William Penn High...
John C. Longacre '47
John, who had a distinguished career in osteopathic medicine, died March 4, 2012, at his home in Portland, Texas. Before entering Princeton, he served as an aviation...
Thomas M. Longcope III '41
Shorty died in Essex, Conn., Dec. 30, 1997. He had suffered from Alzheimer's disease. His wife of 46 years, Elizabeth Lefferts, survives.A son of '05, Tom prepped at St....
Geoffrey Herr Longenecker '68
Geoff died Jan. 13, 2009, at home in Versailles, Ky., following a battle with cancer. He was 62. Geoff was born in Pittsburgh and prepared at Isidore Newman School in...
Tremper Longman Jr. '45
Tremp died Nov. 22, 2006. Tremp prepared for Princeton at Exeter. At Princeton he was captain of the squash team and a member of Tiger Inn and the Right-Wing Club. His...
Ralph Stanley Longstaff '36
RALPH LONGSTAFF, at the age of 77, died May 21, 199 1. He spent his early life in Lake Forest, 111.He prepared for Princeton at the Hill School. At Princeton, he was a...
Frank Hoover Longstreth '44
Stretch died March 19, 2008, Chagrin Falls, Ohio. He was 86. Born into Philadelphia’s Main Line, he prepped at the Haverford School and earned a bachelor’s degree...
Joseph Edwin Longstreth '42
Joseph died Apr. 15, 2003, of an internal hemorrhage; he was 82. At Princeton he majored in philosophy and Greek, and was active in musical and dramatic events. He left...
William Thacher Longstreth '41
Our most enthusiastic classmate, Thacher, died Apr. 11, 2003, of heart failure. Crippled with Parkinson's disease his last few years, he maintained a warm personality to...
William J. Lonnquist '26
BILL LONNQUIST, of Northfield, Ill., died on March 11, 1990, after a long Illness. Bill came to Princeton from Lake Forest Academy, was a member of Dial Lodge, and...
David Townsend Look '51
came from a long line of Princetonians, commencing with Jacob Lindley 1800 and including John I. Blair (a charter trustee from 1866 to 1899), his grandfathers...
John Kenneth Looloian '43
A senior finance executive who surmounted injuries from a 1991 auto accident that kept him in a wheelchair, Ken died of respiratory failure Nov. 22, 2008, at Overlook...
Chauncey C. Loomis Jr. '52 *63
Chauncey, who died of lung cancer March 17, 2009, was a man of many interests, principally literature and exploration. He enlisted in the Army during the Korean War...
Homer Leslie Loomis Jr. '36
AT 77, HOMER DIED Oct. 7, 199 1, at Archbold Memorial Hospital in Thomasville, Ga.He graduated from St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. At Princeton he was a member of...
Philip Albert Loomis Jr. '38
Phil, whom we honored with our Distinguished Service Award in 1978, was a notable legal scholar. He was Phi Beta Kappa at Princeton, graduating with highest honors in...
Gordon M. Loos '50
Gordon died Feb. 3, 2006, in Haverford, Pa., of complications from liver disease.Gordon was born in Nanjing, China, but grew up in Princeton. He served a year in the...
Reinhard H. Loosch '52
Reinie left us in the summer of ’51, but by then had joined Terrace Club, the Lutheran Students Association, Whig-Clio, and the German Club and worked in the Student...
Allan M. Loosigian '59
Allan died Jan. 7, 2011, under circumstances as tragic and bewildering as his life. According to the Connecticut medical examiner, Allan suffered a heart attack and “his...
Silvio Henry Lopez '29 *30
Si, the last secretary of the Class of 1929, died April 6, 2006, in St. Petersburg, Fla., two weeks short of his 97th birthday.He was the son of Jose M. Lopez-Guillen...
Andrew J. Lord Jr. '47
Jim Lord died of pulmonary fibrosis in Newton, Mass. Sept. 9, 1995. His home was in Wellesley. Jim served in WWII as an Army air corps pilot.During the D-Day invasion he...
Bennett Lord '43
Ben died Feb. 22, 2008, in Mystic, Conn., where he lived since his retirement. He was 86. Born in Indianapolis, Ben grew up in Englewood, N.J., and graduated from...
George Ransom Lord Jr. '39
George died April 10, 2004, at Blowing Rock Hospital near his home in Whispering Pines, N.C.His entire business career was with Sinclair Oil, beginning after graduation...
Herbert Ivory Lord '38
Herbert "Pete" Lord died from stroke Oct. 22, 1996, at his home in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., where he had lived for many years. He was born Oct. 5, 1915, in Detroit...
Jere Williams Lord Jr. '32
The class has lost one of its most distinguished members. Jere Lord died Apr. 20, 1999, at his home in Bedford, N.Y.Jere prepared at Gilman School. While at Princeton,...
Walter Lord '39
Walter died May 19, 2002, at his NYC apartment. Walter may not have invented the genre of narrative historian, but his seminal account of the sinking of the Titanic, A...
Robert G. Lorndale '47
Bob died Oct. 11, 1998, at his home in Wynnewood, Pa., of heart failure.Born and raised in Chicago, he graduated from the Asheville School in North Carolina. Bob...
Robert Lee Losey '67
Bob died Feb. 2, 2005, after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's.A graduate of Livingston (N.J.) High School, Bob was a chemical engineer at Princeton. He was president of...
Paul F. Losi '54
Paul Losi died Feb. 1, 2011, in Naples, Fla. Born in Jersey City, N.J., he graduated from Dickinson High School. He majored in architecture at Princeton and was...
Harvey Norman Lothringer '41
Harvey died May 22, 2006, in his home in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. The youngest member of our class, he had hoped to attend our 65th reunion. He prepared at the Richmond...
James F. Lotspeich '44
Jim died from leukemia Aug. 6, 2006, in the Malibu, Calif., home that he and his wife, Helen, enjoyed for 46 years. He was 83. From an established Cincinnati educational...
Brewster Montgomery Loud '61
We lost Bump on March 26, 2004. He died at his home in Thousand Oaks, Calif., after battling lung cancer for more than a year.Born in Grosse Point, Mich., he attended...
Richard Louie '60
"DICK" LOUIE is gone. He came to us from Lakewood, Oh., and majored in economics, joining Quadrangle Club and later, Wilson Lodge, and he roomed with Bob Tellander. On...
Donold King Lourie '47
Don Lourie died of pneumonia Oct. 25, 2008. He was born Jan. 12, 1926, in Evanston, Ill., to Mary K. Lourie and Donold B. Lourie ’22. He prepared for Princeton at New...
Francis Henry Love Jr. '41
Frank died Dec. 18, 2003, in Vero Beach, Fla. He came to Princeton after attending All Hollows HS in NYC and then Lawrenceville.He was on the freshman football and...
George H. Love '22
GEORGE "CUPE" LOVE died July 25, 1991. He was a trustee of Princeton and a wellknown business leader. After attending Harvard Business School, he joined a small...
H. Norris Love '26
RED LOVE, well known Chicagoan, died July 10, 1993, in Lake Forest Hospital, following a prolonged illness. Red, who was one of the youngest living members of the class,...
Francis A. Lovecchio '54
Frank died suddenly May 16, 2006, following a brief illness.After his Princeton premed and football days, Frank attended medical school at the University of...
Thomas Tudor Loveday '46
Tom was born in Geneva, Switzerland, where his British father Alexander was associated with the League of Nations. Tom prepared for Princeton in England and Andover...
Jon B. Lovelace '50
Jon, an early leader in the mutual-fund industry, died Nov. 16, 2011, at his Santa Barbara, Calif., home. He was a Hotchkiss graduate and a Navy reservist from 1945 to...
Richard Shriver Lovelace '40
Dick died Feb. 29, 2004, following complications from bacterial meningitis, at Essex Meadows in Connecticut.He prepared at Calvert School and Gilman. At Princeton he...
Lane Lovell '31
The class lost one of its most faithful and popular members when Lane Lovell died Aug. 10, 1998. He was 90. He was born in Madison, N.J., where he lived until...
Stanley L. Lovett '48
Stan Lovett died at his home in Boston, Va., on Nov. 29, 2001. He was 80.Stan was a native of Salem, N.J., and a graduate of Pleasantville HS. He served with distinction...
George Low '31 *35
George died Apr. 6, 2002. He was a businessman and community leader who came to Princeton from Bordentown, Mich. He played center on the basketball team and stayed at...
Merritt Burnham Low '29
MERRIT DIED June 25, 1990. He prepared for college at Bordentown Military Inst. At Princeton he was in the band and was undergraduate manager of the University Dining...
Richard E. Low '49
Dick died Jan. 15, 2003; he was 74. He prepared for Princeton at Forest Hills HS. At Princeton he majored in history and graduated summa cum laude. Dick was research...
Alfred H. Lowe Jr. '48
Al died Sept. 29, 2012, at 86, at home in Niskayuna, N.Y., after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was born in Paterson, N.J., and grew up on family farms in...
Douglass Arnold Lowe '54
Douglass Lowe died from Alzheimer’s disease July 26, 2009, surrounded by his family. Born in St. Louis, he graduated from the Blake School. At Princeton, he majored...
Malcolm Branson Lowe Jr. '45
Mac died Feb. 26, 2004, following an extended and courageous battle against progressive supranuclear palsy. Classmates who shared eight days with Mac on an arduous...
Alfred Northrup Lowenstein '34
Al, who only a few years ago, wrote, "I am still swimming a mile almost every day," died May 6, 2004, at Morris View Nursing Home, in Morristown, N.J. He was 91.With his...
Philip Holt Lowry '39
Phil died Feb. 28, 1998, of emphysema at his home in McLean, Va. At the time he retired he had spent 31 years in military operations research in the Dept. of Defense...
Raymond Westervelt Lozier Jr. '45
Ray died Jan. 18, 2004, at the Sugar Hill Retirement Community in Wolfboro, N.H., where he lived the last years of his life.Ray prepared for Princeton at Bogota [N.J.]...
Walter Alexander Lubanko '46
Walter died on Oct. 24, 1999, of stroke in Hong Kong, where he had stopped with his wife, Mary Anne, at the end of class tour to China.A native of Great Neck, N.Y.,...
Edgar M. Lucas '32
Ed Lucas died Jan. 30, 1999, of cancer at the Blakehurst Life Care Community in Towson, Md.After leaving Princeton, Ed attended Johns Hopkins for a year to study...
Edmund D. Lucas Jr. '32
Ted died on Feb. 6, 2001. He was 88 and had been in failing health for several years. After graduating from Mercersburg Academy, he started at Princeton with the...
Antonio Alfredo Luccarelli '48
Tony, a native of Avellino, Italy, died on June 9, 2001, of heart failure. He was 79.Tony came to NYC in 1936 and moved in with his sister in Princeton, graduating from...
Allan Power Lucht '37
Al died of pneumonia on Jan. 1, 2002, at Greenwich Hospital; he was 84.Al came to us from Cliffside Park [N.J.] HS. He majored in architecture and graduated with honors....
William Hardwell Ludlow '33
Bill died Dec. 21, 2004, in the Unitarian Universalist House in Germantown, Pa., where he was a longtime resident. He was 93.A native of Madison, N.J., Bill earned a...
David Mcwilliams Ludlum '33 *38
Dave Ludlum died May 23, 1997, at his Princeton home. He prepared at Newark Academy, was active in Triangle, and joined Charter. He majored in American history, later...
John Arthur Luetscher Jr. '33
John died Jan. 30, 2005, in Sacramento, Calif.After graduating from Princeton in 1933 with a bachelor's in chemistry, John earned a medical degree in 1937 from Johns...
Richard D. V. Luft '53
Dick Luft died approximately 18 years ago following a lengthly illness. He was born Oct. 12, 1931, and graduated from Mount Lebanon H.S.While at Princeton, he majored in...
George Peck Luger '54
George died May 16, 2005, after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.He was born in Kansas City, Mo., where he graduated from the Pembroke Day School. While at...
Eugene John Luippold '32
Gene died Aug. 22, 2003.He prepared at Stevens Prep. At Princeton he was on the rifle team and freshman crew, and was a member of Whig-Clio and the Gateway Club. He...
Duncan Merriam Luke '52
Duncan Luke died on Jan. 31, 1998, at his residence, Equinox Terrace, in Manchester, Vt., where he had lived since 1983. He was 67.Duncan attended public schools in...
Alan F. Lukens '26
AL LUKENS, for many years a resident of Schenectady, N.Y., but more recently of Calif., died June 17, 1990, of pneumonia at London House, Santa Rosa, Calif., after a...
Charles P. Lukens Jr. '22
Charles Pennington Lukens Jr. died Dec. 17, 1995, in Williamsburg Landing, Va. He was 94. His wife of 62 years, Susan Mae Weaver Lukens, predeceased him by several...
Jaywood Lukens '30
Jay died at his home in Coral Gables on Nov. 10, 1999.Born May 10, 1909, in Watertown, N.Y., he entered Princeton from Newark Academy. At Princeton, Jay wrestled and was...
John N. Lukens Jr. '54
John Lukens died Jan. 12, 2010, at his home in Nashville, Tenn. He was born in Portsmouth, Ohio. At Princeton, he was a religion major and vice president of Campus...
Richard A. Lukins '58
Richard (known as Dick to his Princeton classmates) died suddenly March 28, 2011, of acute myeloid leukemia. Richard came to Princeton from Rye (N.Y.) High School,...
Benjamin E. Lum '50
Ben died at the Medical College of Virginia, Nov. 5, 2002.A lifelong resident of Petersburg, Va., he graduated from high school there. Ben served in the Navy from 1943...
Arthur C. Lumb '57
Art died May 22, 2010, after several years in a long-term nursing facility. He had broken his hip and had several strokes that prevented him from having physical therapy...
Wendell L. Lund *33
Wendell Lund, director of New Deal agencies Washington, D.C., died Dec. 25, 2004, at a nursing-care facility Williamsburg, Va. He was 98.Wendell received a Ph.D....
J. Edward Lundy *40
J. Edward Lundy, a retired Ford Motor Co. executive who joined the company with Robert McNamara and eight other World War II veterans known as the Whiz Kids, died Oct....
Joseph Michael Luongo '66
On April 5, 2008, Joe Luongo lost his seven-year battle with prostate cancer. Joe came to Princeton from Orange (N.J.) High School, where was captain of the football...
Edgar Baker Lupfer '42
Ed died Mar. 27, 1999, at home, in Springfield, Ohio. He retired some years ago from the presidency of the Springfield Leather Co., founded by his father, the late...
S. Benjamin Lupica '36
Ben died Oct. 19, 1998, after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease, at a nursing home in Clifton Park, N.Y. He was 86. He graduated from DeWitt Clinton H.S. in NYC...
Edwin C. Luther Jr. '37
Ed Luther died July 1, 1996, leaving Fran, his wife of 46 years; his sons, Dave '74 and Edwin, his daughter, Francie, and five grandchildren. At the Hill School, Ed was...
Netzer Eugene Luthi '38
Binx Luthi died July 4, 1998, in San Marino, Calif. He was a widower and had no children. Two first cousins, Raymond Luty and Jane Littleton, were his closest surviving...
Robert R. Luton '53
ROBERT R. LUTON, of Darien, Conn., died Mar. 30, 1992, after a brief illness.After a oneyear stint in the U.S. Navy, Bob came to Princeton from Secaucus, N.J.the only...
Alvin Lothrop Luttrell '36
Lody died of heart complications on Jan. 25, 2002. He was 87.After graduating from Sidwell Friends School in DC, at Princeton he majored in economics and joined Dial...
Carl G. Lutz '37
Carl died June 29, 2011, in West Hartland, Conn. After Princeton he coached crew at the Hun School and worked in sales and promotion for General Motors and the...
Michael R. Lutz '64
Michael died July 11, 2009, of metastatic uveal melanoma, at home in Deerfield, Ill., surrounded by family and friends. He was 67. Michael, a Chicagoan who attended...
Wilbur Masser Lutz '37
Wilbur Masser Lutz, born in 1915 in Reading, Pa., died Nov. 4, 2008. He graduated from Reading High School and at Princeton he majored in biology, graduating with...
William Harrison Luyties Jr. '50
William "Sandy" Luyties died of lung cancer at his home in Ross, Calif., Oct. 14, 1996. He was 69.Born in St. Louis, Sandy prepared at the Hill School, where he...
Richard Ackerman Lydecker '38
After suffering a series of strokes, Dick died in Newville, Pa., July 7, 2003.He prepared at Glen Ridge [N.J.] HS, where he was class president. At Princeton he majored...
Robert Carpenter Lydecker '35
Bob died on Mar. 7 in Basking Ridge, N.J., at age 85. He prepared at Glen Ridge H.S., where he was on the track team, served on the yearbook and literary board, was a...
Carl Blackburn Lyle Jr. '53
Carl died March 14, 2005, in Chapel Hill, N.C.He came to Princeton in 1949 from Rogersville, Tenn. In June 1951, when his Princeton heavyweight crew was racing in the...
Keith Lynahan '36
Keith died peacefully Dec. 28, 1998, in the V.A. Hospital at Oxford, N.Y. He prepared at Bound Brook [N.J.] H.S. At Princeton he majored in economics and was a member of...
James Joseph Lynch '34
Jim Lynch, after suffering from Parkinson’s disease for several years, died June 11, 2007, in Denville, N.J. He was 94. Jim was vice president and treasurer of New...
Macdonald "Mac" Lynch '37
A selfdescribed "unrepentant entrepreneur," Mac Lynch was working on plans for an innovative waste oil refinery just days before he died July 17, 1996, in Houston, Tex....
Russell Reid Lynch '88
The class lost a dear friend on June 24, 1999, when Russ died in Sunnyvale, Calif. He was 33.Originally from Moraga, Calif., Russ was one of the original "clapper...
H. Bailey Lynn II '65
Bailey died of a heart attack Sept. 13, 2008, at his home in Delaplane, Va. The son of Hugh Lynn ’36, Bailey came to us from Louisville Country Day School. After...
William D. Lynn '40
“Billy,” as he was known to his admiring classmates, died March 2, 2010, from complications of a faIl. The son of a surgeon, Billy attended Boys Latin and Gilman and...
Harold Maurice Lyon '23
HAROLD LEFT us Apr. 11, 1992, at Estero, Fla., his retirement home.Harold was a veteran of service in the Navy during WWI. When he was out of uniform he became president...
Stuart T. Lyon '60
Tom died March 25, 2012, of Alzheimer’s disease at Olde Knox Commons near his home in Mooresville, N.C. Born in Morristown, N.J., Tom prepared at Morristown High...
James A. Lyons III '72
Jim Lyons died unexpectedly in his sleep due to heart complications, at home in Carlsbad, Calif., on May 12, 2011. Jim came to Princeton from Newtown Square, Pa. He had...
John Patrick Lyons '45
John Lyons died in Florida, surrounded by family members, Feb. 27, 1997. He was 76.John grew up in a traditionally Irish environment in Newark, N.J., and prepared at...
Leonard Lyons '53
Princeton lost one of its most loyal sons when Lenny Lyons died on June 14, 1989, in Baton Rouge after a lengthy illness. Lenny was born in Rochester, N.Y., on April 10,...
Lambert Lyons-Montgomery '39
Buzz died July 18, 2006, at his home in Essex, Mass. In the first years after graduation, Buzz took his mathematical skills to a number of companies, among them Aetna...
Alan Ferguson Lyster '52
Alan died from complications of cancer at his home in Asbury Park, N.J., on Aug. 16, 2001. A funeral mass was celebrated in his home parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel...
Guy F. Lytle III '66 *76
The class lost a nationally recognized religious and academic leader when Guy died July 15, 2011, from complications diabetes. Guy entered Princeton with the Class...
Scott Harrison Lytle '40
RETIRED Univ. of Washington history professor Scott Lytle died in Seattle July 21, 1990. The son of Richard R. Lytle '13, he attended St. Andrew's and Exeter. He...
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