Current Issue
Oct. 22, 2008
Vol. 109, No. 3
Memorials
Memorials by Name: E
Llewllyn E. '31
VICTIM OF A SUDDEN STROKE, Llew died Feb. 6,1991, at his home in Shaker Heights, Oh. He came to us from Kent, where he was on several athletic teams. At Princeton he was...
John Hibbard Eadie '31
A letter to the Alumni Office from his wife brought word of Jack's death on June 30, 1989. Unfortunately, we had not seen much of him since college days. He was another...
John Ashley Eakes '75
John Eakes died Nov. 21, 1998, in Philadelphia of complications of end-stage liver disease. He was 45. After earning his Princeton AB, summa cum laude, in religion, John...
James Earl Eakin '52
Jim Eakin died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease Aug. 11, 2008, at his home on Amelia Island, Fla., where he had lived with his wife, Mary Beth, since 1996. ...
William C. Earhart '36
Bill died April 6, 2010, in Portland, Ore. Coming to us from Pittsburgh, Bill graduated from Princeton with honors in politics. He was on the cross country and gym...
David Prince Earle Jr. '33
Bud died Jan. 31, 2002, at his home in Wilmette, Ill. He was 91. The eulogy written by his family called him "a loyal friend, invaluable colleague. Patient and selfless...
Eldon Horace Earle Jr. '35
A former class president, Eldon died at the Medical Center at Princeton April 27, 2002.Born in Newark, he prepared at Loomis School, Windsor, Conn. At Princeton he...
John Collins Early '40
Following a prolonged illness, John Early died Dec. 4, 1998, at Norwalk [Conn.] Hospital. Several classmates attended his memorial service. John prepared at Hotchkiss...
William James East '59
Bill East, a real estate negotiator and management specialist, died of cancer Nov. 28, 1995, at his home in Chestnut Hill, Pa.Bill was born in Rochester, N.Y., and...
Arthur M. Eastburn '39
Art died Feb. 8, 2007, at his home in Delray Beach, Fla. The cause was congestive heart failure, which had been with him for the past 10 years. From 1941 to 1946 he...
Quentin D. Easter '75
Quentin Easter died of cancer April 28, 2010, in San Francisco. He was 57. A native of Baltimore, he was an active and influential figure on campus during our...
John P. Eastham '49
Jack died Aug. 28, 2008, at the age of 80. He prepared for Princeton at Phillips Exeter Academy. At Princeton he was a member of the football, hockey, and track...
Richard Hallenbeck Eastman '41
Prof. Richard Eastman died at his home on May 29 surrounded by his family. Son of Ford Eastman 1901, he was born and raised in Erie, Pa.At Princeton, Dick majored in...
Samuel E. Eastman '44
Sam died June 14, 2007, of pneumonia in Fort Myers, Fla. He was a transportation economist and lawyer and general counsel for the Interstate Commerce Commission. He also...
John David Easton '55
John Easton died of melanoma July 28, 2001, at the Medical Center in Princeton. Born in Trenton, he was a longtime Hopewell Township resident.John came to Princeton from...
Robert Earl Eastright '41
Bob died July 7, 2006, in Richmond, Va., after a short illness. A Blair Academy graduate, Bob majored in biology at Princeton, where he was a member of...
H. Ezra Eberhardt Jr. '33
Ez died April 11, 2005, at the Pine Acres Rehabilitation Center in Madison, N.J., following a brief illness. He was 93.Born in Newark, he lived in Chatham, N.J., for 63...
John S. Eberhardt '37
John Eberhardt, ex-director of personnel and employee relations for the New Jersey Department of Human Services, died Feb. 2, 2010. Originally from Montclair, N.J., he...
William Charles Eberhardt '39
Bill died June 14, 1998, at Mainstay, his home in Trevett, Maine, where he and Lorraine, his wife of 34 years, had been glad to settle down at last after his peripatetic...
Robert Cushman Eberle '41
Bob died June 27, 2000, in Sarasota, Fla.A devotee of Wagner and Goethe, Bob showed early interest in Nietzsche at Brooklyn's Poly-Prep.He was Princeton Cane Spree's...
Frank Mccord Eccles '48
Skip Eccles died Nov. 1, 2005.He graduated from Phillips Andover Academy, where he returned to teach mathematics, become a housemaster, and coach lacrosse, as well as...
Durand Echeverria '35 *50
Itch died in Wellfleet, Mass., on May 21, 2001. Born in Short Hills, N.J., his early years in schools in Cuba and the US hinted at the multifaceted life he was to have....
Roger E. Eckert '48
Roger Eckert, distinguished professor of chemical engineering at Purdue University, died April 26, 2003.A native of Lakewood, Ohio, Roger was a product of the local high...
Richard H. Eckfeldt '61
Dick died July 8, 2011, in New York City after a long struggle with a multitude of illnesses. He was determined to attend our 50th reunion, and he made it, although...
Michael P. Eckles '63
Mike Eckles died Dec. 12, 2010, in Dodge City, Kan. He enjoyed a fulfilling and wide-ranging career that led him from retailing to green technologies, real estate,...
Thomas Philips Eddy '49
A STALWART CLASSMATE, Tom Eddy died in Pittsburgh Jan. 16, 1993, of a massive heart attack, probably triggered by a bleeding ulcer diagnosed six days earlier, while he...
William Alfred Eddy '42
Bill died of a brain tumor on July 18, 1989. From beginning to end, his life was one of faith, love, courage, and humor. The son of William A. Eddy '17, he was born in...
Maitland Armstrong Edey '32
OUR CLAS SECRETARY for the past 15 years, Mait died of a sudden brain hemorrhage on May 9, 1992, at Martha's Vineyard Hospital. thus ending an outstanding career as a...
Joseph Tappen Edgar '32
JOE EDGAR died Nov. 27, 1990, in Bar Harbor, Me., where he had lived for many years, owning and operating a children's clothing store during that entire time. He...
John Edie '36
Jack died Nov. 19, 1996. He prepared at Phillips Andover. At Princeton he majored in history. He received his master's from Columbia and also studied at the U. of...
Richard Edie '26
DICK EDIE, longtime resident of Yonkers, N.Y., died on Dec. 27,1989 at Devon Manor, a retirement community in Devon, Penn., a victim for more than six years of...
Lyn W. Edinger '70
Lyn died July 21, 2012, at his home in Burlington, N.Y. Lyn was born in Syracuse and attended high school in Albany. At Princeton he was an honors student in history....
Francis C. Edmonds Jr. '40
Pete's son, Francis III '64, called from Switzerland to tell us his father had passed away on July 22, 2001, in Livingston, N.J.He prepared at Glen Cove HS on Long...
William Edgar Edmonston '33
Bill died at his home in the Tucson Mountain foothills on June 8, 2002. He was 92.Born in Baltimore, Bill moved to Arizona in 1940. He soon became involved in many...
Carter Hewitt Edmund *31
CARTER HEWITT died Mar. 20, 1992, in Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria, Ill., twelve days after an automobile accident. Carter was driving alone, after visiting his...
Ralph H. Edson '31
Ralph died Sept. 26, 1996, after a brief illness.He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton and received his medical degree from Cornell in 1935, later serving his...
Alexander Edwards '43
SANDY DIED June 22, 1993, in Somerville, N.J., at the age of 71.Born in Greenwich, Conn., he had lived in Flemington, NJ, for the past year and a half. Prior to that...
Alfred H. Edwards '37
Al died Aug. 4, 2005, at his home in Dundee Township, near Elgin, Ill. He had just turned 90.Born in Elgin, he entered Princeton from Choate, majored in philosophy,...
Benjamin Franklin Edwards III '53
Gentle Ben, a St. Louis native who presided over one of the nation’s most respected brokerage houses, A.G. Edwards Inc., which his great-grand-father founded in 1887,...
Berry H. Edwards '53
Berry, who received his law degree from Harvard Law School, spent two years in the Army judge advocate general’s corps, practiced law in El Paso, Texas, and founded a...
Donald A. Edwards '52
Donald Edwards died Oct. 27, 2007. At the time of his death he resided in New Braunfels, Texas. He came to Princeton from Milwaukee, Wis. At the Wayland Academy he was...
George H. Edwards *67
George Edwards, the retired Edward MacDowell Professor of Music at Columbia University, died Oct. 23, 2011, after a long illness. He was 68. Edwards graduated from...
Harold Sydney Edwards Jr. '33
Hal Edwards died June 4, 1996. He had been an invalid for seven years as a result of a stroke, but he retained an unfailing cheerfulness and was happy to hear from and...
J. Rodney Edwards '50
Rod died May 5, 2009, at his Bay Head, N.J., home. Rod had a deep commitment to Princeton and a passion for sailing. Fittingly for our former class president and past...
John Handy Edwards '26
JOHN EDWARDS, prominent citizen of Oklahoma City and dedicated Princetonian, died May 5, 1993, of a heart ailment, at his home in Oklahoma City.John came to Princeton...
Mark P. Edwards '81
Mark Edwards died unexpectedly Nov. 4, 2011, while at work in Philadelphia. He was just a few days short of his 53rd birthday. At Princeton, he was a history major and a...
Robert Edwards '45
Bob Edwards died March 20, 2009, at his home in Hobe Sound, Fla., after a difficult struggle with lung cancer. Bob entered Princeton from the Brunswick School in...
Robert Chapman Edwards '41
Bob Edwards died Oct. 12, 1996, in Sonoma, Calif., after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several years. As v.p. of research and development for the Cook Electric...
Robert L. Edwards '37
Bob Edwards of West Hartford, Conn., died Jan. 15, 2006. He was 91.Born in Auburn, N.Y., he was a direct descendant of Thomas Hooker, Jonathan Edwards, and Hartford...
Sam Arlent Edwards '42
Sam Edwards died of leukemia Oct. 25, 2008, in Washington, D.C. He was born in Bruges, Belgium, son of the renowned British mezzotint engraver S. Arlent Edwards. He...
William Neville Philip Edwards '26
Bill Edwards, who came to Princeton in our senior year as a Davison Scholar, died Jan. 25, 1995, at his home in Storrington, Sussex, England. He suffered from...
William S. Edwards '50
After a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis, Bill died at his Charlottesville, Va., home on Nov. 28, 2000.He prepared for Princeton at St. Paul's School. Bill was a...
Richard Fox Sedric Eells '42
RICHARD SEDRIC FOX EELLS, a distinguished authority on corporate philanthropy, died in New York Hospital oil Oct. 5, 1992. He was 75 years of age. Mr. Fells was born in...
Albert Van Eerde II '44
Al died in Wayne, N.J., on July 18, 2002. He came to Princeton from Pingry; he majored in biology, played in the band, and was a member of Prospect Club. Service in the...
James Wilbur Effron '53
After a brief illness, Jim, our class president from 1996 to 1998, died of acute leukemia July 21, 2005.Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is where it began and ended for Jim. He was...
David Lockwood Egan *57
David Lockwood Egan died at his home in St. Helena, Mont., March 5, 2004. He was 69.Originally from Seattle, David attended the University of Washington. Following a...
George D. Eggers '47
George rendered extraordinary services to our country, Princeton, and our class. He entered the Army in 1944 as a private, re-enlisted and, during the next 33 years,...
Peter Ehlers '31
OUR CLASS JAZZ BUFF, Pete Ehlers, died at his home in Ocala, Oct, 12, 1991. He came to us from Penn Charter and at college was a member of Triangle, the Banjo Club, the...
Claude Joseph Ehrenberg Jr. '52
Joe Ehrenberg died of congestive heart failure in St. Joseph Hospital, Chicago, on May 31, 1995. Friends and colleagues celebrated his life at the Chicago City Theatre...
John O. Ehrenclou '51
John was born July 4, 1930, the son of doctors Alfred H. and Cora Morris Ehrenclou of New York and Camden, S.C. A graduate of The Hill School, he majored in economics...
James Ehrenfeld '58
Jim died Nov. 9, 2002, after an almost year-long fight with cancer.Jim prepared for Princeton at Newark Academy. He majored in music and wrote his thesis on Ernest...
Richard M. Ehret '21
RICHARD M. EHRET died April 10, 1990, in Haverford, Penn. Born in Edgewater Park, NJ., he and St. Paul's Schools. At Princeton he was on the freshman baseball team and...
William Arthur Ehret '38
Bill died Aug. 23, 2001, at The Medical Center in Princeton. Born in Trenton, he lived in Pennington before moving to Lawrenceville. Bill graduated from Lawrenceville...
Norbert A. Ehrmann '53
Norb, a native of Heidelberg, Germany — and naturally a most valued member of the Princeton German Club — died Mar. 1, 2002.Entering from Toms River HS in N.J., he...
Harry Stur Eid Jr. '54
The Rev. Harry Eid of Winsted, Conn., died at his home Jan. 19, 2004, after a long illness.A graduate of Lynbrook [N.Y.] HS, Harry attended Princeton and transferred to...
George Wells Eighmy Jr. '51
Wells died suddenly May 20, 2002, at home in Woodbridge, Conn. He came to us from the Nichols School and majored in basic engineering; his roommates were Art Mudge, Cal...
John Watkins Eiman '43
Jack died July 12, 2002, following a long illness. He was 80.A native of Bala Cynwyd, Pa., he prepped at the Haverford School. After Princeton, Jack received a medical...
William Janvier Eiman '45
Bill Eiman died Nov. 26, 1998, after battling cancer, at his home in Philadelphia.Bill prepared at Haverford, was a member of Colonial Club, rowed on the freshman...
Gordon Madison Einhaus '36
Gordon died of heart disease Mar. 2, 1997. He was 83. He prepared at Brooklyn's Polytechnic School. At Princeton he majored in economics. Having completed his ROTC...
Robert Benson Einhorn '48
BOB EINHORN DIED Apr. 2, 1993, in Philadelphia following heart surgery. Bob came to Princeton from Central H.S. He majored in history and graduated in 1949, having spent...
John M. Eisenberg '68
John died on Mar. 10, 2002, at his home in Potomac, Md., from brain cancer.Born in Atlanta, John came to Princeton from White Station HS in Memphis. At Princeton he...
Leonard Eisenbud *48
Leonard Eisenbud died Nov. 30, 2004, in Haverford, Pa. He was 91.Practitioner of science and student of its culture, Leonard earned a doctorate in physics at Princeton,...
John Henry Eisenhard Jr. '38
John Eisenhard, a Virginia Weekly news editor for nearly 35 years before retiring in 1979 as managing editor of the Fauquier Democrat, died Jan. 18, 1999, at Fauquier...
Edward Charles Eisenhart '42
Ed died Oct. 18, 2001, at home in Charlottesville, Va., of a heart attack. After a long career in the magazine field he retired in 1974 to devote his energies to...
William S. Eisenhart III '70
Will Eisenhart died June 25, 1995, in a fall from the roof of the building in which he lived in N.Y.C. He was 48. A native of York, Penn., and a graduate of Exeter, Will...
Lorenz E. A. Eitner *52
Lorenz E. A. Eitner *52 Lorenz E. A. Eitner, the Osgood Hooker Professor in Fine Arts emeritus at Stanford University, died of a heart attack March 11, 2009. He was...
Thor I. Eklund '68
Thor died May 2, 2004, from esophageal cancer. He was 57.Born in Philadelphia, Thor prepared at Holy Cross High School in Delran, N.J. At Princeton, he majored in...
Abdallah El Maaroufi *69
Abdallah El Maaroufi, former ambassador of Morocco to the United States, died at home of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease on Jan. 8, 2011. He was 66. At age 14, El Maaroufi...
Ellen Fagenson Eland *81
Ellen Fagenson Eland, nationally regarded scholar of managerial diversity, died in Reston, Va., Sept. 25, 2005, of brain cancer. She was 51.Eland received an...
Oswald Elbert '34
Os Elbert, a pensioned Lutheran pastor with some shut-in calling and preaching, died Aug. 5, 2004, in Reading [Pa.] Hospital after a brief illness.Since 1993 he and his...
Robert V. Elder '38
BOB ELDER of Brunswick, Maine, and Bristol, R.I., died July 29, 1993, from complications of Alzheimer's Disease. He had lived in Bristol for many years, working with...
James Eldridge '33
Jim Eldridge died in Naples, Fla., Feb. 27, 1995. He had a successful and useful career.He was born in Philadelphia, grew up in Atlantic City and came to Princeton from...
Thomas Richard Eldridge '37
Tom died Aug. 8, 2009. At Princeton and beyond he devoted himself to musical entertainment. He worked for a time with NBC in New York City and later spent time at the...
WILLIAM Elfers '41
Bill died of a heart attack while vacationing in Oysterville, Wash., June 21, 2005.A Hotchkiss graduate, Bill was a member of Princeton's freshman 150-pound crew and...
Frank Osborne Elftott '34
OZ ELLIOTT, retired chairman of Elliott State Bank in Jacksonville, Ill., died Feb. 3, 1991, at his home in Tucson. Under his guidance, the bank, founded by his...
Archibald Cameron Elias Jr. '66
Arch died of lung cancer July 10, 2008. He grew up in Philadelphia and prepared for Princeton at the Pomfret School, where he was president of his class and of the...
Carl Martin Elkan '39
Carl died May 6, 2007, at his home in Bartlesville, Okla., surrounded by family and caregivers. Carl graduated with a degree in chemical engineering and went...
James Anderson Elkins Jr. '41
Jim died in Houston Feb. 21, 2006.A Texan born and bred, he came to Princeton from The Hill School. He majored in economics and graduated with honors. A member of...
James Elkins III '74
Jim Elkins, a businessman, significant figure at Texas Medical Center, and a member of one of Houston’s most prominent families, died of a heart attack June 10, 2010,...
Roy Taylor Ellegard '49
FOLLOWING A VALIANT 18month battle against inoperable colon cancer, Roy died Mar. 12, 1991.Roy was born in Hartford, Conn., may 26, 1927, and graduated from Kingswood...
Charlotte E. Ellertson *19
Charlotte Ellertson, a leading advocate for women's reproductive rights, died of breast cancer Mar. 21, 2004, in Boston. She was 38.Born in Johannesburg, South Africa,...
Ludlow Elliman '31
GENEALOGIST LUD ELLMAN died Aug. 31,1990, at his home in Damariscotta, Me. He came from St. Paul's School and at college was on the crew, hockey team, and the DAILY...
William Kemper Elliot '38 *40
Bill Elliot died Dec. 24, 1997, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He had been ill for several months. Bill never married and closest surviving relatives are a niece and a nephew,...
David Potter Elliott '34
Dave Elliott, a retired secondary school teacher and self-employed writer in Port Washington, L.I., with an impressive Princeton heritage, died July 15, 1996. His...
Douglas Alexander Elliott '40
Son of a '15 graduate, retired aeronautical engineer Doug Elliott died Feb. 18, 1998. He came to Princeton from Roosevelt H.S. along with Ed Holloway, Ed Thurman, and...
John Brailsford Elliott '51
John died July 25, 1997, of heart failure. He was an outstanding collector of Asian art, assembling a collection of Chinese calligraphy and painting that has been...
John S. Elliott '33
JOHN ELLIOTT, known in college as "Guzz," and later as Jack, died July 7, 1992, at Oak Harbor, Wash., where he had lived for many years.Jack was born Dec. 22, 1912, in...
Loran Lajoie Elliott '34
TEX ELLIOTT, after battling Parkinson's disease for 24 years, died Mar. 31, 1993, three days after his 81st birthday. He leaves his devoted wife, Helen (Gibson), with...
William B. Elliott '35
Bill Elliott died Sept. 5, 1996, at his home in Colorado Springs, Colo., where he had lived for many years. He was 84. Born in Chicago, Bill came to Princeton from the...
William Potter Elliott '28
Bill Elliott died Aug. 8, 1996, in Madison, Conn. He was part of the contingent from the Hill School. At Princeton he was a member of Cap and Gown Club, and he played...
Calvert Nice Ellis *27
Calvert Nice Ellis, president emeritus of Juniata College, prominent educator, and ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren, died Apr. 7, 1995. He was 90. He...
Charles H. Ellis Jr. '30
CHARLIE ELLIS died Nov. 11, 1992, in Kennett Sq., Penn. Writing and talking about politics was a lifelong love of Charlie's, and his greatest thrill as a newspaper man...
Charles R. Ellis '57
Charlie Ellis died May 4, 2008, after a battle with cancer. At Princeton, he majored in English and roomed senior year with Bill Faltz. After graduation, Charlie...
David Ellis '52
Dave died May 3, 2003.Immobilized since 1986 when he suffered a catastrophic accident playing polo, and with additional health complications including the inability to...
David R. Ellis *62
David Ellis, a retired aeronautical engineer who loved flying, died Oct. 26, 2010. He was 75. Born into a family of aviation pioneers, Ellis learned to fly early,...
Donovan Russell Ellis Jr. '40
The death of Don Ellis, on Aug. 16, 1989, extinguished a shining star in our galaxy of class leaders. Don served us faithfully as V.P., reunion chairman, and Annual...
Francis M. Ellis '45
PEPPER ELLIS DIM Dec. 2, 1993, of a heart attack at his home in N.Y.C. A very moving "Service of Thanksgiving" for Pepper's life was held at the Friends Meeting House at...
James Parsons Ellis '41
JIM ELLIS died of heart disease June 26, 1993, in a hospital near his Silver Spring, Md., home. Until 1989, he worked for the U.S. and D.C. governments as a realestate...
Mackinnon Ellis '24
MACKINNON ELLIS DIED Oct. 25, 1993. Kin prepared at Culver. After graduating with our class, he attended the Univ. of Pennsylvania Medical School. He interned at the...
Robert Miller Ellis '45
Bob Ellis died Sept. 12, 2006, in Traverse City, Mich. Bob entered Princeton from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill., where he was a classmate of Charlton Heston....
Roger Sheffield Ellis '24
ROGER ELLLIS died Nov. 20, 1990, in Woodstock, Vt. A native of Buffalo, he was first associated with the Pierce Arrow Co. and finally with the Buffalo Envelope Co. He...
William Burton Ellis Jr. '53
Bill died Nov. 13, 2001, in Brewster, Mass., after a long bout with Parkinson's disease. He was 70.His nickname was "Des," for Destroyer, which he certainly was on the...
William Morgan Ellis '49
Bill Ellis died of cancer June 8, 2000, at his home. He was 72. Bill was born in Newark, N.J., and prepared at Andover. At Princeton he majored in architecture and was a...
William Warren Ellis Jr. '46
Bill Ellis died Aug. 30, 1997, at his home in Columbus, Ohio after long battle with Parkinson's disease.A graduate of Plainfield [N.J.] H.S., Bill majored in politics...
George Gibson Ellsworth '61
GEORGE ELLSWORTH died June 29, 1992, in Adelaide, Australia, after a courageous struggle with lung disease. He was visiting his sister and brotherinlaw, Susan and Peter...
Robert M. Ellsworth '49
DR. BOB ELLSWORTH, a worldrenowned specialist in eye cancers, lost his valiant personal battle with cancer and passed away at Englewood (N.J.) Hospital Jan. 2, 1994.Bob...
Richard S. Ellwood '53
Dick, a financial wizard who was of the first real-estate invest ment bankers in New York City and a creative Tiger who transformed our mini-reunions into major...
Clyde L. Ellzey '49
Clyde Lawrence Ellzey MD died May 3, 1984, in Covington, La. He was 55. Born in McComb, Miss., he graduated from McComb H.S.An accomplished musician, Clyde majored in...
Walter Von Elm '37
Backgammon, squash, golf, and bridge expert Walter Von Elm died Aug. 17, 1997, leaving a brother, Charles, a sister, Dorothy, and nieces and nephews.At Choate, Walter...
Walt Elsaesser '46
Walt Elsaesser died Feb. 10, 1999, of bone cancer, after a courageous struggle. He came to Princeton in 1942 from Morristown [N.J.] School, where he was senior prefect...
Howard Elting Jr. '30
Howard died in his sleep at his home in San Rafael, Calif., on July 1, 2001. He was 93. A native Chicago, Howard came to us from Exeter. At Princeton he was manager...
Robert G. Elwell '55
Bob Elwell died July 8, 2008, in Austin, Texas. He suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. Bob grew up in Washington, D.C., and graduated from St. Albans School. At Princeton...
Alfred Ely Jr. '41
Al Ely died Mar. 20, 1998. The son of Alfred Ely '05 and great-grandson of Alfred Ely 1804, he came to us from the Harvey School and St. Mark's.A member of Colonial...
Clarence Geist Ely '54
Geist Ely, a longtime resident of New York City, who most recently lived in Lakeville, Conn., and Miami, died June 22, 2007, at Noble Horizons in Salisbury, Conn., after...
Douglas M. Ely '79 *81
A traffic accident on the Washington, D.C., beltway claimed Doug’s life March 2, 2006. He was 47. Doug was one of the most traveled members of the class, from his birth...
James Wallace Ely '32
WALLY ELY, a distinguished upstate New York banker and public servant, died July 3, 1990, as a result of a crippling stroke.Except for a short stint in N.Y.C., Wally's...
John Hart Ely '60
John, one of our most distinguished class members, died of cancer Oct. 25, 2003. He was 64.A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, John was dean of the...
John Wilson Ely '27 *33
John Wilson Ely died April 25, 1998. He came to us from Andover, and was a member of the Tiger board and of Tower Club. John roomed with Mitch Posey in Holder Hall. He...
Laurence Driggs Ely Jr. '41
Larry died on Dec. 8, 1987, and is survived by two sons, including Laurence III '67, and one daughter. A brother, John M. '42, is deceased.Unfortunately, we were not in...
William Arthur Ely Jr. '39
BILL DIED IN Nov. 1980, but where and under what circumstances we do not know. He had been on our address unknown list since 1964 and, in spite of persistent efforts, we...
Roger A. Emanuelson '70
Roger A. Emanuelson died peacefully Dec. 30, 2006, surrounded by his very loving family. Rog was born in Worcester, Mass., and graduated from Oxford High School in 1966...
Edward Coe Embury '28
RED EMBURY died June 6, 1990, at the Winchester (Va.) Medical Center. After Lawrenceville he studied architecture at Princeton, and was a member of Charter Club. He...
Richard Austin Emerick '61
Dick died March 31, 2009, in Savage, Minn., his home of many years, after a battle with cancer. Born in Evanston, Ill., he was raised in the Twin Cities and came to...
Boynton C. Emerson '51
Jack was born May 9, 1929, the son William A. and Laura Cole Emerson. He prepared at the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn., and matriculated with us in the fall...
Charles P. Emerson '33
CHARLES (BUD) EMERSON DIED Jan. 23, 1991, at Newton Wellesley Hospital. He lived in Wellesley Hills, Mass. A memorial service was held Jan. 28 at the Unitarian...
James Thomas Emert '29
JIM DIED July 10, 1989. He prepared at Lawrenceville. At Princeton he played both freshman and varsity baseball, and was runnerup for the handball championship. He...
John Matthew Emery III '79
(Following is an expanded version of the memorial published in the print edition of PAW.) Jake died Dec. 7, 2008, at his home in Modesto, Calif., where he had practiced...
John R. Emery '52
John died March 19, 2012. He grew up in Montclair, N.J., where he attended Montclair High School. At Princeton, he was an outstanding athlete, earning varsity letters...
Richard Benjamin Emery '55
Dick died Nov. 30, 2006, at home in Tucson after a long bout with colon and liver cancer. He prepared at Montclair (N.J.) High School, earning all-state honors in...
Stephen Emery '29
Stephen Emery died Feb. 21, 2007, at Asbury Heights in Mount Lebanon, Pa. At Princeton he was captain of the chess team and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After...
William H. Emig '42
Bill Emig died Feb. 14, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio, where he had lived most of his life. Bill attended Bexley High School and Columbus Academy. During his senior year at...
Harry E. Emlet Jr. '52
Harry died Sept. 4, 2011, along with his wife, Elinor, in a car accident in Falls Church, Va., where they had lived for 40 years. Harry graduated from Mercersburg (Pa.)...
Susan Emlet '78
After an 11-year battle with brain cancer, Susan died Feb. 19, 2003. She met the challenge with courage, grace, and peace of mind.Susan majored in sociology and earned...
Charles C. Emmons '27
Word has just been received from the Office of Alumni Records that Charles C. Emmons died Nov. 28, 1996, in Baltimore of pneumonia.Chuck came to us from Gilman. At...
Donald C. Emmons '55
Donald Emmons, son of Clarence L. Emmons, was born June 20, 1933, in Paterson, N.J., and died of natural causes May 4, 2012, in Concord, N.H. Don came to Princeton from...
Thomas Peter Emmons '48
We will very much miss Tom Emmons, who died suddenly on May 24, 2003. At the time of his death Tom was serving as our 55th reunion treasurer. He served in that office at...
Morris S. Emory '38
Mouse died on Mar. 3 in Haverford, Pa., after declining in health in recent years. Having spent his life "behind the eight ball," he always refused to give up the good...
Thomas Mercer Emory '32
Tom Emory, who had recently moved to the Valle Verde Retirement Community in Santa Barbara, Calif., died Apr. 27.After working for a year in the loan department of the...
Raymond Jay Emrich '38 *46
Ray died Sept. 7, 2005, at Kirkland Village in Bethlehem, Pa.After preparing at East Denver (Colo.) High School, Ray majored in physics at Princeton. He graduated with...
Janice M. Enagonio '80
Janice died Jan. 16, 2004, after a promising career as a physics researcher. While still in high school in Gaithersburg, Md., Janice delved deeply into science,...
Peter C. Enander '53
Pete, who spent his entire business career with Chubb & Son and in 1970 established the Chubb Institute, a highly successful programming and systems school, before...
Edward G. Engel '37
Ed died July 26, 2007, at the Mount Vernon, N.J., home of his daughter, Suzanne. He formerly lived at Meadow Lakes in Hightstown, N.J. He graduated from the Pingry...
Frank Engel III '63
FRANK DIED May 27, 1990. at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital after a long illness.He was accountant with a private practice in Manhattan, specializing in financial...
Joseph G. Engel '40
We regret the time lapse in honoring Joe, who died May 7, 2000.He prepped at Pingry School, and as an alumnus he was a trustee and treasurer. He received the school's...
E. Herbert England Jr. '51
Herb was born April 30, 1929, in Decatur, Ill., the son of Edward H. and Mildred (Boruff) England. His stepmother was Dorothy T. England, and his sister was Mary E....
Herbert K. England Jr. '31
Herbert K. England died July 17, 1996, in Raleigh, N.C., following muchhonored career in New Jersey education. He was 87. Herb earned his master's at Rutgers in 1934,...
Samuel Edgar Englehart '49
Sam died April 15, 2010. At the time of his death, he was our class secretary. After graduating from Dormont (Pa.) High School, Sam enlisted in the Navy and was an...
Howard Gilbert Engler '34
Howie Engler, founder of the Engler Instrument Co. in Jersey City, died May 13, 1999, in Ticonderoga, N.Y., near his summer home in Hague, on Lake George. He had been in...
Milton George Englert '34
Milt Englert, one of the most enthusiastic of a loyal band of Southern classmates who, in his words, "enjoyed quite a few happy mini-reunions among themselves as well as...
Charles Clement English Jr. '36
CLEM DIED Dec. 24,1990, in Waynesboro, Va. He was the son of Charles C. En&h'06. After graduating from the Haverford School, he majored in geology at Princeton and was a...
John English Jr. '38
John died on Apr. 10 at Kingsway Manor Assisted Living in Schenectady, his city of lifelong residence.John came to Princeton from Loyola School and Albany Academy, where...
Theodore English '39
BROUGHT DOWN by emphysema, Ted died Jan. 1, 1993, at his home in Grafton, Mass. He was acutely ill only in his last three days but had been frail for several years.Ted's...
Woodruff J. English '31
Woodruff Jones English, a distinguished member of our class, died Mar. 3, 1996, at Meadow Lakes in Hightstown, N.J. He studied at Pingry, and at Princeton he was active...
Thomas Ennenga '45
Tom died June 20, 2004, from complications of pneumonia in Freeport, Ill., his lifetime hometown.Tom entered Princeton from Lawrenceville, son of Oscar Ennenga '14. In...
Fred S. Ensley Jr. '45
Fred Endsley died April 9, 2011 in Naples, Fla., after a struggle with Parkinson’s disease. Fred entered Princeton from Western Military Academy and joined Quadrangle....
Robert Morgan Entwisle Jr. '38
Friends mourn the death of Bob Entwisle Jan. 24, 1996. Except for his four years as a captain in the Air Force, he spent most of his life in around Pittsburgh.Son...
Wade D. Epps '69
The class and many others suffered a sudden, great loss with Wade’s death July 17, 2011. His service, attended by Pinky and Clay McEldowney and Stephanie Judson and...
Herbert Epstein '40
These are the words of old friend George Hamid: "Herb, known to his friends as Hyp, left us Aug. 8, 2003. His nickname resulted from a hypnotism course in his senior...
Michael B. Epstein '71
Mike died Jan. 6, 2011, in Chicago, soon after contracting a rare form of cancer. He came to Princeton from Elmira, N.Y., where he attended Elmira Free Academy. Mike...
Paul E. Epstein '62
Paul Epstein died of pancreatic cancer March 12, 2009. He came to us from Swampscott (Mass.) High School. At Princeton, he dined at Key and Seal, was in the band,...
Seymour Epstein '40
Lifelong Morristown, N.J., resident, community leader, and prominent retailer, Seymour Epstein died May 28, 1998. He was the owner, president, and former board chairman...
Peter O. Eralandsen '60
Peter died June 3, 2006, of a heart attack. Peter entered Princeton with the Class of 1958 after graduating from Andover and attending schools in Garden City, N.Y. A...
Willard Winn Erdman '33
Winn was born Jan. 22, 1912, in Quincy, Ill., and died Dec. 9, 1999, in Las Cruces, N.Mex.At Princeton, he majored in classics and played for the rugby club as well as...
Oscar Erlandsen '29 *31
Oscar died Nov. 21, 1995. He prepared at Storm King School. At Princeton his roommate was Buzz Irvine, and he belonged to Arbor Inn. After receiving his degree in...
Robert E. Erler '36
Bob died Jan. 16, 2006. He was 89 and lived in Lakewood, N.J. A graduate of Barringer High School in Newark, N.J., he majored in biology at Princeton. In 1940 he...
Carl E. Ernst '63
Carl, a business innovator in using public records and information services, died Aug. 9, 2010, in Albany, N.Y., the city of his birth, after a long fight against...
Leonard L. Ernst '25
Leonard L. Ernst died Aug. 10, 2008, in Tucson, Ariz., at the age of 103. Leonard was born March 2, 1905, in New York City and lived for many years in Bergenfield, N.J....
Eric Macdonald Erskine '60
Mike died May 3, 2004, in Baltimore from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.Born in Denver, Mike came to Princeton from Evanston Township [Ill.] High School. Originally a...
Samuel L. Ertel '53
Sam, who rowed crew in the University’s first boat for four years, co-captained the heavyweight varsity as a senior (Princeton then belonged to the Eastern Association...
Rowland Erving '30
Rowland Erving died Dec. 18, 1995, at his home in Fox Chapel, Pittsburgh, Penn. He was born Apr. 22, 1905, and was a lifelong resident of Pittsburgh.Before Princeton,...
Wallace M. Erwin '42
Wallace Erwin, teacher and Arabist, died Aug. 4, 2011. Wally grew up in Louisville, Ky., and prepared for Princeton at the Georgia Military Academy. At Princeton he...
G. Edward Escher Jr. '35
NED ESCHER died Feb. 3, 1993, of cardiac arrest, seven months shy of his 80th birthday. For most of his life, he lived in Fairfield County, Conn. Since his retirement in...
Henry Newton Ess III '42
Henry died in NYC on Oct. 27, 2000, after a long illness. He was a trust and estates partner at the New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, where he spent his entire law...
Marten S. Estey *52
Marten Estey, professor emeritus of economics at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania, died Dec. 5, 2012. He was 94. Estey graduated from...
Edwin Frank Estle *66
EDWIN FRANK Es I LE, at the age of5 1, distinguished economist, died suddenly at his home in Melrose, Mass., Dec. 8, 1978. Born in Bloomington, Ind., lie earned his B.A....
Fletcher Hanson Etheridge Jr. '49
Fletcher "Hans" Etheridge Jr. died Oct. 15, 1995, at home, in his sleep.He was born June 30, 1928, and prepared at Woodberry Forest. At Princeton he majored in politics,...
Burt H. Etherington '33
Burt, president of the Class of 1933 in its first 10 fledgling years, died Dec. 19, 2006. He was born in Philadelphia. After he graduated from Princeton with a...
Frederick Hubbard Etherington '35
Retired company owner and community activist Frederick Etherington died Nov. 12, 2009, at Beaumont, a retirement community in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Born in Philadelphia,...
Sandford Garland Etherington Jr. '39
After a brief illness, Sandy died May 20, 1997, of complications from pneumonia and a heart attack.Sandy saw action with the armored forces for four years during WWII,...
Hugh A. Eubank '42
Hugh A. Eubank died of intestinal obstruction Feb. 27, 2009. Hugh was born in Springfield, Mass., and prepared at Deerfield, where he was captain of the swimming team...
Robert Benjamin Eubank '64
One of our Southern gentlemen, Robert Benjamin Eubank, succumbed peacefully to a failed heart on April 23, 2010. Known to most of his Princeton classmates as Robin,...
Edwin E. Eubanks Jr. '74
Our classmate Edwin Eubanks died July 6, 2007. After Princeton, Edwin studied at Oxford and Stanford and gained distinction in medicine at Cambridge...
Paul Euwer '23
PAUL EUWER died of heart failure July 14, 1991, in Greensburg, Penn.Peck, as he was known in college, came to Princeton from Lawrenceville, where he played football,...
William R. Evans '44 *50
Bill died Nov. 17, 2008. He and his wife had lived on Manhattan’s East Side for several decades. Bill had no listings in our undergraduate directories, but a brief...
Dudley Evans '41
A SERIES OF STROKES stilled the big heart of amiable, loyal, and dependable Dudley Evans on Aug. 24, 1993, in Cresswill, N.J. Dud's life linked his Princeton heritage...
Gordon K. Evans '26
GORDON EVANS, a lawyer admitted to practice in California and New York, died in New York Hospital in N.Y.C. on Sept. 26, 1991, following a brief illness. Gordon left...
H. William Evans III '67
H. WILLIAM EVANS III drowned near his cottage at Moosehead Lake, Me., on Sept. 3, 1991. Bill had been headmaster of the Dublin School in New Hampshire since 1985.Bill...
John Evans Jr. '38
JOHN EVANS JR., prominent Denver civic leader, died Mar. 16, 1993, after a long illness. His greatgrandfather John Evans was Colorado's first territorial governor and...
John Stephenson Evans '34
John S. (as he liked to be addressed), a retired senior v.p. and head of the national accounts department for the Trust Company Bank of Georgia, died in Atlanta Jan. 14,...
McNair Evans '52
McNair Evans died from a heart attack at his home in Laurinburg, N.C., on Nov. 1, 2000. His memorial service was held in the Laurinburg Presbyterian Church, where he had...
Murphy Evans '54
Murphy Evans died July 1, 2012, in Raleigh, N.C. Born in Laurinburg, N.C., he graduated from the Woodberry Forest School. While at Princeton, he was active on many...
Raymond Flaccus Evans '31
Ray Evans died Aug. 18, 1998, in Willoughby, Ohio. He was born Dec. 23, 1908, in Pittsburgh, Pa. He attended Shady Side Academy prior to Princeton, where he was a member...
Rhys Evans '62
Rhys died peacefully on July 18, 2001 at his home in Dorset, Vt., after a two-year battle with cancer. The overflowing attendance at his funeral in Manchester was a...
Richard Virdin Evans '51
Dick was born March 29, 1930, in Baltimore, and came to us from Roland Park Country School and Gilman. At Princeton he was an SPIA major, sang in the Glee Club, went...
Tyler Defrance Evans '46
Tyler Evans died July 4, 2009, in Greeneville, Tenn. Ty was born in Hinsdale, Ill., but grew up in Ridley Park, Pa., and entered Princeton in 1942. He majored in...
William Howard Evans '33
Bill died Dec. 21, 1996, in Boca Raton, Fla.He grew up in Pittsburgh and prepared for Princeton at Shady Side Academy. He earned his degree in chemical engineering. In...
William Mccray Evans '45
BILL EVANS died Jan. 22, 1991, at his home in Indianapolis, after a long and courageous battle with lymphatic cancer, Bill was a lifelong resident of Indianapolis and a...
Thomas Montgomery Evaul '78
Chip died June 23, 2004, in Long Beach, Calif., after a four-and-a-half-year battle with breast cancer. He was 49.He grew up in Merchantville, N.J., and attended the...
John Thomas Everett Jr. '45
John Everett died March 15, 2008. John entered Princeton from Baylor Military Academy in Memphis, just ahead of his brother, William ’46, and joined Terrace Club. His...
Martin Ryerson Everett '24
MARTIN RYERSON EVERETT DIED Oct. 9, 1991 in Somers, N.Y. He prepared for Princeton at the East Orange High School. He married Katherine Van Keuren on Sept. 20, 1930 in...
J. Donald Everitt '28
Don, the last member of our class, died March 23, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz. Born in Lewisburg, Pa., the son of a Presbyterian minister, he graduated from Mercersburg...
Robert Howe Everitt '35
Bob Everitt died May 7, 2008. Born in Jersey City, N.J., he came to Princeton from Newark Academy. At Princeton he majored in politics, ate at Colonial Club, and was...
Paul Joseph Evershade '46
Paul "Tex" Evershade died Feb. 26, 2004, at his Houston, Tex., home after a long, courageous battle with ocular melanoma, and surrounded by his loving wife of 57 years,...
Walter H. Evert Jr. *60
Walter Evert, professor of English emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, died April 5, 2012. He was 88. Evert joined the Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He...
David W. Ewald '48
David Ewald died of cancer at home in Greenwich, Conn., April 19, 2007. Graduating from Tenafly (N.J.) High School in 1944, he joined the Navy V-5 aviation program,...
Donald Graham Ewing '48
Don Ewing, who had been in failing health, died Feb. 27, 2000, at Kennebunkport, Maine, where he and Barbara had moved in 1991 in fulfillment of their lifelong dream....
George M. Ewing '44
George “Stretch” Ewing, a former newspaper publisher, died Sept. 16, 2009, in Canandaigua, N.Y., at the age of 87. A New York City native, he moved from California...
James Dennis Ewing '38
Jim died Jan. 21, 2002, in Keene, N.H., after a brief illness. At Princeton, he played baseball, hockey, and squash, was an honors graduate in the classics, a member of...
Lynn Moore Ewing Jr. '52
After a 12-year struggle with cancer, Lynn Ewing died at home in Nevada, Mo., on Feb. 17, 2001. Funeral services were held in the United Methodist Church and All Saints...
Robert Simmons Ewing '41
Bob died Oct. 24, 2006, a month after heart surgery. Raised in England, he attended schools there and in Lausanne and St. Gallen, Switzerland, finishing at Andover....
Samuel Evans Ewing III '52
Sam, known and revered as "Mr. Irish Wolfhound," died of pneumonia Feb. 1, 2004, in Philadelphia.Born in Bryn Mawr, Pa., Sam prepared at Haverford School, and at...
Edward Joseph Eyring '55
Edward and his wife, Mary Jane Eyring, were killed May 14, 2002, in a traffic accident in Honduras. A State Department official said the couple's car was struck by a...
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mudd archive memorials
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