Current Issue
Apr. 1, 2009
Vol. 109, No. 11
Memorials
Memorials by Class: 1959
Christopher Allen '59
Artist, writer, and linguist Chris Allen died of causes related to a peptic ulcer in NYC on July 1, 1996.Chris was born in Peiping, China, to Betty Smith Allen and...
David E. Appleton '59
Dave died March 29, 2010, in Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. Born and raised in Denver, Dave came to Princeton from Denver’s East High School. He majored in chemical...
Nicholas P. Barker '59
Nick died of liposarcoma Dec. 24, 2009, in Lookout Mountain, Ga. Born in St. Louis, Nick came to Princeton from St. Louis Country Day, where he played...
Hirsh Eli Barmatz '59
Hirsh died Oct. 11, 2004. He was living in Denver, Colo., at the time of his death, and had been battling cancer for several years.Hirsh was born in Denver and attended...
William H. Beim Jr. '59
After holding esophageal cancer at bay for eight years, Bill succumbed at home Sept. 11, 2011. Born in Minneapolis, Bill prepared for Princeton at Shattuck School. At...
Leonard H. Bernheim Jr. '59
Len died in New York on Sept. 19, 2000, of pancreatic cancer.Len prepared for Princeton at Lawrenceville. A member of the freshman crew and later varsity coxswain, Len...
Jerry N. R. Brisco '59
Jerry, or "Breeze," died on Feb. 19, 2002. He was living in Tempe, Ariz., at the time. The cause of death is unknown.Born in Summit, N.J., Jerry grew up in Milwaukee and...
Bruce E. Brown '59
Bruce died Nov. 4, 2012, at home in Wellborn, Fla., following a recurrence of cancer. Born in Orange, N.J., Bruce attended West Orange High School. He followed his...
Joseph R. Burns '59 *62
Joe "Red," electrical engineer and inventor, died at his home in West Trenton on Apr. 18, 2001.A member of Cannon Club at Princeton, Joe played both varsity baseball and...
Sargent Bush Jr. '59
Sarge Bush died Oct. 8, 2003, from metastatic melanoma.Born in New Jersey, son of the Rev. Sargent Bush '17, Sarge prepped at Blair Academy. At Princeton he majored in...
Robert G. Bushnell Jr. '59
Bob died peacefully April 28, 2012, at home in Pawlet, Vt. Born in New York City, Bob attended Andover, where he sailed and sang. A Princeton Yacht Club stalwart and...
William Butler IV '59
Bill died of a stroke on May 20, 2010, in hospice care in Chester Springs, Pa. The Haverford School sent Bill to Princeton, where he joined Cottage Club and played on...
J. Warner Butterworth II '59
Duke died April 17, 2005, in New York-Presbyterian Hospital, following a brief but courageous battle with lymphoma.A native Philadelphian, he spent his adult life in New...
James Mcgregor Canavan Jr. '59
GREG CANAVAN died Dec. 11, 1989, at Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis after a brief illness. At the time he was executive V.P. of Smith, Moore & Co., an investment...
Henry Bartholomew Cox '59
Bart Cox, a distinguished historian, died April 8, 2007, at his home in Fort Washington, Md. He had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. Bart attended the Landon School,...
Gilbert F. Curtis '59
Gil died Oct. 15, 2011, in Cambridge, Mass., after a determined, three-year battle with cancer. Born in Providence, R.I., Gil attended Pawtucket East High School. At...
Joseph E. Dedeo '59
Joe DeDeo, a retired advertising executive, died of lung cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in NYC on Dec. 8, 2000.Joe was born in Newark, N.J., and prepared...
David C. Delacour '59
Dave died Nov. 21, 2010, at home in Reno, Nev. Born in Philadelphia, and coming to Princeton from Choate, Dave majored in English, ate at Dial, taught wrestling at the...
Frank G. Denig '59
Frank died in Connecticut on Sept. 1, 2001, of multiple myeloma. A native of NYC, Frank majored in history at Princeton, took meals at Terrace Club, played freshman...
Joel T. Downey '59
Joel died June 3, 2010, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian. He was living in Pittsburgh at the time. Joel came to Princeton from Beall High...
Timothy T. Duffy '59
Tim Duffy died on Feb. 3, 1999, in Newport News, Va.Tim came to Princeton from Troy H.S. in Troy, Ohio. He served as an orange key guide, took his meals at Terrace Club,...
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...
Boyce A. Fincher Jr. '59
A heart attack while mountain biking in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains claimed Royce on July 5, 2009. Royce attended Newman School in his hometown of New Orleans,...
Frederick William Fitz '59
WE LEARNED ONLY RECENTLY of the untimely death of Fred Fitz, from a heart attack, on Mar. 27, 1990.Fred came to Princeton from the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago. A...
Robert L. Fitzpatrick '59
Fitz died of lung disease Oct. 23, 2010, in Los Angeles. Born in Montclair, N.J., Fitz prepped at Lawrenceville. He majored in sociology at Princeton, where his...
Gordon Buell Ford Jr. '59
Gordon died from natural causes May 6, 2007, at his home in Louisville, Ky. He was a noted scholar and esteemed professor whose brilliant career was cut short by mental...
Michael J. Friedlander '59
Mike Friedlander, a two-time heart transplant recipient, died on July 8, 1999.Mike, born in NYC, came to Princeton by way of Deerfield Academy. A biology major, Mike...
Mandeville A. Frost '59
Tom died of heart failure Oct. 13, 2011, at home in Rhinebeck, N.Y. Born 59 seconds into 1938, Tom was raised in Hyde Park, N.Y., attending Roose- velt High School,...
Richard Howell Furman '59
DICK DIED unexpectedly of an embolism in New Canaan, Conn., Dec. 10, 1990.Dick came to Princeton from the Darrow School in New Lebanon, N.Y. Dick majored in geology and...
Robert Brown Gardner '59
An internationally known mathematician, Robby died May 5, 1998, following a brief illness. A professor at the U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1971, Robby...
Thomas C. Garrity '59
> Tom died May 25, 2006, at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Few of us knew Tom. He left Princeton early in our sophomore year, when he roomed briefly with...
Robert D. Gongaware '59
Bob Gongaware, a much beloved pediatric and general surgeon in Savannah, Ga., died Feb. 18, 1999, following a courageous battle with brain cancer. Connect Savannah...
Andrew A. Graham II '59
Al Graham died on Sept. 13, 2001, of a brain tumor. Born in Princeton, Al's ties to the university were deep. His father was a faculty member, and two uncles were...
Stephen Harris Harrington III '59
STEVE HARRINGTON died in Philadelphia on Dec. 23, 1989, after a courageous struggle against colon cancer. Steve came to Princeton from Haverford School and while at...
C. Dodd Harris III '59
WE LOST DODD Mar. 4, 1993.Life was an adventure for Dodd. At 17, he completed an I 8month odyssey, sailing around the world on the clipper ship YANKEE. At Princeton, he...
Christopher J. Heller '59
Chris, a general and vascular surgeon, died Aug. 4, 2010, at his home in Tucson from residual complications of lung cancer that he first encountered — and battled...
Zenji Harold Normann Hoegberg '59
NORMANN DIED Dec. 28, 1990. Matriculating at Princeton in 1951, he served with the Army in the U.S. and France from 1952 to 1954, returning to join our class in 1955, He...
Leo Booth Hogan Jr. '59
Leo died of renal failure Aug. 13, 1993, following organ transplant operations.Leo grew up in Wilmington, Del., where he attended Alexis I. Dupont H.S. At Princeton, he...
Joseph R. Huddleston '59
Joe, a distinguished jurist, died July 11, 2011, in Hilton Head, S.C., eight weeks after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of bone cancer. Kentucky-born, Joe came...
Stuart J. Hulnick '59
Stu Hulnick died of leukemia on June 14, 1989, at his home in Lafayette Hill, a suburb of Philadelphia.A nationally known pediatric burn-care specialist and plastic...
Harry H. Hummer '59
resident of North Falmouth, Harry died of leukemia Nov. 26, 2011, in Sandwich, Mass. Born in Lead, S.D., Harry grew up in Madison, Wis., and prepped at nearby Wayland...
Richard Allen Johnson '59
WE LOST DICK JOHNSON to melanoma D", 22, 1990. He died in Cumberland, Md., where he was born and raised, and where he spent most of his professional career as an...
N. Pike Johnson Jr. '59
Born in Olean, N.Y., “on a snowy Christmas Day in 1937,” Pike left us in midsummer, July 9, 2011. Pike attended Olean High School before coming to Princeton. Once...
Carl Henry Kappes III '59
The class lost one of its most exuberant members when Carl lost his tenacious battle with prostate cancer July 13, 2005. He had fought the disease with courage and grace...
Esteban J. Karplus '59
Steve died April 11, 2002. He was living in Scarsdale, N.Y., at the time. The cause of death is unknown.Steve was born in Vienna, Austria. He prepared for Princeton at...
H. Herbert Kashian '59
HERB, AN ACCOMPLISHED architect, died of food poisoning in N.Y.C. Oct. 19, 1992. At Princeton, Herb majored in architecture and graduated magna cum laude. He...
Robert E. Kaye '59
Bob Kaye died Aug. 10, 2006. Bob’s last known residence was in New York City. We were unable to ascertain the cause or place of death. Bob was born in Port Chester,...
Fitzmaurice Kelley '59
Fitz died Dec. 15, 2008, at his home in Wilmington, Vt., after long illness. Born in Manchester, N.H., Fitz came to Princeton from Williston Academy. He was with us...
Edward Hale Kendall IV '59
Ed, a man of many parts and two lives, died June 3, 2002, in Mineola, N.Y., of a heart attack.Raised in NYC, Ed prepared for at the Manlius School. At...
Richard H. Kessler '59
Dick died on Dec. 26, 2001, in NYC, after a brief battle with cancer.Dick was born and grew up in NYC. He attended Millbrook School in preparation for Princeton. At...
Arthur R. Klein '59
Artie died of pancreatic cancer Jan. 9, 2008, in Chappaqua, N.Y. Coming to Princeton from Malverne (N.Y.) High School, Artie majored in chemical engineering and joined...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Philip Dominic Masters '59
Philip Masters of Beaufort, N.C., died of melanoma Aug. 18, 2007, in the Bronx, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, Phil prepared for Princeton at Kew Forest School. He remained at...
Michael Patrick Mccarthy '59
Mike died unexpectedly July 3, 2005, when a blood clot formed following cardiac catheterization. Mike stopped breathing, and efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.Mike...
William B. McKenna Sr. '59
Bill died Savannah, Ga., May 29, 2009. A native and lifelong resident of Savannah, Bill came to Princeton from Portsmouth Priory School. Although he left Princeton...
Robert Harold Messing '59
BOB DIED in West Palm Beach Apr. 19, 1990. Coming to Princeton from the Choate School, Bob majored in sociology and was a member of Prospect Club,A consummate executive,...
Peter F. Metcalf '59
Peter, one of nine Metcalfs to attend Princeton, died Jan. 26, 2001, in his winter home in Venice, Fla., after a five-year struggle with cancer.A graduate of Phillips...
Seth D. Montgomery '59
Montgomery, former chief justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, died Sept. 18, 1998, after a 27-year struggle with multiple sclerosis. A leader and a scholar,...
Richard C. Morrison '59
Dick Morrison died on May 1, 1999, following an angioplasty.Dick entered Princeton from Manchester H.S, in Manchester, Conn. He majored in physics, rowed crew, joined...
Ian B. Mueller '59
Ian, a scholar of ancient Greek philosophy of science, died suddenly Aug. 6, 2010, at the University of Chicago Hospital of a hyperaggressive viral infection. Born in...
C. Thornton Murphy '59
Thornton Murphy died Oct. 12, 2001, of injuries sustained in a fall at his home in Batavia, Ill.Thornton grew up in Oberlin, Ohio, and prepared for Princeton at Western...
Richard E. Neunherz '59
Dick died March 8, 2012, at home in Federal Way, Wash. Born in Tennessee, Dick grew up in Gardner, Mass., and attended Gardner High School, where he was senior-class...
Doddridge H. Nevitt Jr. '59
Dee died Aug. 30, 2009, in Rockford, Mich. Born in Washington, D.C., Dee was the son of Doddridge Nevitt ’33. Coming to Princeton from Lawrenceville, Dee majored in...
Robert M. O'Dear Jr. '59
Bob died April 7, 2010, at home in Chattanooga, Tenn. Bob came to Princeton from University High School in Lexington, Ky. He joined Quadrangle Club but left at the end...
Roderick S. Oakley Jr. '59
Rick died of lung cancer at his home in Natick, Mass., on Aug. 4, 2001.Born in NYC, Rick attended Kent School. He entered Princeton preceded by two generations of...
P. David Ober '59
Dave died Nov. 20, 2006, after a long struggle with colon cancer. Known to many of us as “Obes,” Dave prepped at South Kent (Conn.) School, where he was class president....
Jon L. Plexico '59
Jon Plexico, a resident of Chatham, Mass., died of a stroke in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2001.Jon, born in Detroit, prepared for Princeton at Cranbrook School in...
William Alexander Porteous III '59
"Ports" died of esophageal cancer March 30, 2006. He came to Princeton from the Taft School and entered the Woodrow Wilson School. A native of New Orleans, he...
Carl Michael Rahm '59
Carl died June 18, 2008. We have no further details. Carl attended Morris Hills (N.J.) Regional High School before coming to Princeton. His home address at the time was...
Martin Monroe Reed III '59
Marty Reed died of complications from diabetes July 2, 1995.Marty came to Princeton from Manhasset (N.Y.) H.S. At Princeton he majored in mechanical engineering, played...
George Adam Rentschler Jr. '59
Born in New York City, George attended Deerfield Academy. At Princeton he enrolled in the Woodrow Wilson School, joined Charter Club and served on its Bicker committee,...
Thomas Rickert Reynders '59
Tom died of a heart attack Feb. 1, 2009, in Kabul, Afghanistan. He was conducting a supervisory visit of USAID-funded projects for Checchi and Co., a Washington-based...
John J. Rhoads '59
Jay died May 21, 2010, in Devon, Pa. Born in Abington, Pa., Jay prepared for Princeton at Abington High School and The Hill School, where he played football and...
Lloyd R. Richmond '59
Lloyd, a resident of Green Valley, Ariz., and Rhinelander, Wis., died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis March 13, 2010. Born in Kansas City, Mo., Lloyd moved with his...
Edward Shrader Ridgway '59
Ed died June 1, 2009, of pneumonia, which he contracted while in the hospital in Atlanta, Ga., for a hip replacement. Ed came to Princeton from Chicago Latin and the...
George Thomas Riggs '59
Tom was struck by a police cruiser Sept. 24, 2007, while crossing Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, D.C. He was taken to George Washington University ...
Martin Beal Roberts '59
Martin died peacefully Dec. 16, 2007, surrounded by his family. He had succumbed to pancreatic cancer. Born in Nyack, N.Y., Martin had the distinction of being a...
Robert Rock '59
Bob died of a heart attack on the Saturday afternoon of Reunions, June 1, 2003.Born Aliquippa, Pa., Bob came to Princeton from Kiski Prep 1950, withdrew to serve...
John H. Rorke III '59
John Rorke, an early practitioner of ultrasound diagnostic imaging, died of lung cancer on Oct. 18, 2000, at his home in Glenmoore, Pa.Born in Reading, Pa., John...
Frederick L. Sachs '59
Fred Sachs, physician and hospital administrator, died of prostate cancer at his home in Woodbridge, Conn., on June 20, 1999.Fred was born in Brooklyn and came to...
Albert Theodore Sandquist III '59
Ted Sandquist died of heart problems Nov. 21, 1995, at his home in Pipersville, Pa.Ted grew up in Westfield, N.J., where he attended high school. An economics major at...
Harry Noel Sandstedt '59
HARRY DIED June 21, 1991, after a yearlong illness. His energy and determination kept him active and productive to the end.Following graduate work at the Univ. of...
David Haskell Sawyer '59
David Sawyer, a pioneer political consultant, died July 2, 1995, of a brain tumor. His wife, Nell Michel Sawyer, died of cancer two weeks later.Born in Boston, Dave...
Frederick C. Schneider III '59
Fred died in his home in Pompano Beach, Fla., June 24, 2009. He had suffered from esophageal cancer and heart problems. A native of New Brunswick, N.J., and product of...
Jarrett L. Seaman '59
Jerry died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Dec. 21, 2008, at the University of North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Jerry graduated from Franklin High School in Cedar...
Robert M. Shepardson Jr. '59
BOB SHEPARDSON died of cancer on Aug. 17, 1989, in Basking Ridge, N.J., after a year-long illness. A lifelong resident of New Jersey, Bob was an internist with his own...
Edward M. Shimamoto '59
Ed died of lung cancer on Feb. 21, 2000, at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore. He was buried with full military honors in Arlington Natl. Cemetery.Ed was born...
Charles Alstin Smith '59
Chuck Smith died at home Sept. 24, 2007, of cancer. Born in New York City, Chuck spent his youth in New Jersey and attended Scotch Plains High School, where he played...
Charles Cornelius Smith Jr. '59
“Corky” Smith died June 3, 2007, in Jacksonville, Fla.. Corky came to Princeton from The Hill School, where he played varsity golf. He continued his golf prowess at...
Peter M. Smith '59
Peter died June 14, 2012, at Myrtle Beach (S.C.) Manor, an assisted-living facility where he had resided for several years. The son of Russell Smith ’32, Peter was...
Alan Joseph Snouffer '59
Joe Snouffer, a long-lime restaurateur, died in Dallas on Mar. 17, 1999.Joe came to Princeton from Marion Harding H.S. in Marion, Ohio, but was with us only a short...
Michael Frederick Speers '59
Mike died Jan. 20, 2008, in Kennebunk, Maine, where he had resided for the past 20 years. We have no details as to the cause of death. Mike was born in Lahore, Pakistan,...
Harold J. Springer III '59
Hal died Aug. 31, 2012, at home in Wilmington, Del., after a long illness. Hal came to Princeton from Alexis I. duPont High School. He majored in psychology and joined...
Horace Donaldson Stephens '59
Horace died of lung disease Dec. 6, 2005, at his home in Falmouth, Maine. Born in Pittsfield, Mass., Horace was preceded at Princeton by his father, the Rev. John...
Charles S. Stevenson Jr. '59
A freak accident took the life of Charlie Stevenson in Sanbornton, N.H., on July 6, 1999. A lightning bolt split a 60-foot pine tree, sending it crashing down onto the...
Joseph A. Sullivan '59
"Bo" Sullivan, business executive, gregarious politician, and community leader, died in Morristown, N.J., on Mar. 13, 2000, following a stroke.Bo came to Princeton from...
Charles F. Thomas Jr. '59
Charles Thomas died Nov. 21, 2006, according to the Social Security Death Index. We know neither the place nor cause of death. Charles had been listed in the University...
George G. Thouron Jr. '59
George died Feb. 13, 2002, at St. Simons Island, Ga., after a long illness.He grew up in Wilmington, Del., and prepared for Princeton at St. Paul's School. He was a...
Richard L. Thurn '59
Dick died April 15, 2010, at his home in Livingston, Ala. Born in Perth Amboy, N.J., Dick entered Princeton from Westfield (N.J.) Senior High School, where he ran track...
Joel I. Tirschwell '59
Joel died suddenly Oct. 6, 2006, in New York City. Born in New York, Joel attended James Madison High School there, where he was captain of the New York City...
John Patson Tunnell '59
John died Aug. 9, 2002. We only recently learned of his death, and we have no further details. John attended Phillips Exeter Academy before entering Princeton. His home...
Frank H. Unlandherm '59
Frank died Oct. 13, 2009, in New York City. Frank attended William L. Dickinson High School in Jersey City, N.J., where he was a member of the National Honor Society....
Salvatore J. Vinciguerra '59
Sully died at home June 1, 2006, of lung cancer. Born in Methuen, Mass., Sully prepared for Princeton at Andover, where he captained the JV football team and served on...
Salvatore J. Vinciguerra '59
Sully died at home June 1, 2006, of lung cancer. Born in Methuen, Mass., Sully prepared for Princeton at Andover, where he captained the JV football team and served on...
William Alexander Volckhausen '59
Bill, distinguished banker, lawyer, and law professor, died of Parkinson's disease on Sept. 10, 2001, in NYC.Bill majored in English, minored in Chinese, and dined at...
Richard L. Watts '59
Dick died at home July 1, 2010, after short bout with cancer. He was living in San Rafael, Calif., at the time. Born in New York City, Dick grew up in New Jersey and...
Franklin S. Wearn II '59
Frank Wearn died on Nov. 18, 2000, at the Cleveland Clinic, of a ruptured aorta.Born in NYC, Frank prepared for Princeton at Brooklyn Technical, where he was a class...
William Edge Weisbrod '59
Bill, who lived in Stuart, Fla., died Sept. 20, 2008. We have no further details. Bill prepared for Princeton at the Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Del. During his...
Christopher J. Welles '59
Chris, a longtime Brooklyn resident, died June 19, 2010, after a 10-year struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. Coming to Princeton from Ridgewood (N.J.) High School, Chris...
J. William Wenrich '59
Bill died of pancreatic cancer July 6, 2010, in Dallas, Texas. Born in York, Pa., Bill graduated from Ann Arbor (Mich.) High School, where he was class...
James Worthington '59
JAMES WORTHINGTON died Aug. 27, 1990, in Basra, Iraq. He had suffered a heart attack while being held hostage by the Iraqi government shortly after that country invaded...
Michael R. Zales '59
Mike Zales, an exuberant son of Princeton, died May 4, 2000, at home in Tucson of heart disease.Born in NYC and raised in Stamford, Conn., Mike graduated from St. Luke's...
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