Princeton Alumni Weekly: Memorials

Albert R. De Baker '22

WE ANNOUNCE with deep sorrow the passing of Albert de Russy Baker in Scarsdale, N.Y., at the age of 9 1. He died in his sleep on July 22, 1992, after a brief illness. Al...

Albert S. Barnes '22

Albert Barnes died at the West Melbourne (Fla.) Health Care Center Aug. 28, 1995, after suffering a stroke on Aug. 7. He had moved from Vero Beach to Melbourne after his...

Kenneth Wilard Barrows '22

KEN BARROWS died on Oct. 25, 1987, in Jenkintown, Penn. He was born in Buffalo, N.Y., and prepared for Princeton at Penn Charter School in Philadelphia....

Robert C. Brooke '22

ROBERT C. BROOKE died Dec. 22, 1992, at his winter home in Naples, Fla. His widow, Miriam, reported that he suffered cardiac arrest late in the afternoon, after they...

Everett N. Case '22

Everett Needham Case, a former pres. of Colgate U. and vice chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, died July 17, 2000, in Waterville, N.Y. He was 99.Everett's...

Macfarland L. Cates '22

MACFARLAND LAFFERTY CATES died at his home on Feb. 2, 1993, at the age of 94. He lived in Spartanburg, S.C., all his life and for many years served as chairman and...

Francis L. Corcoran '22

Francis Corcoran died Nov. 4, 1998, at his home in Locust Valley. He was 100. According to his daughter Carol, he died peacefully, with all of his family in attendance....

William A. Cudlipp '22

WILLIAM A. CUDLIPP died June 5, 1991, Jacksonville, Fla., practiced law Jersey City for 50 years, after attending Columbia Univ. Law School. During WWI he served...

John M. Currie '22

THE CLASS reports that the Rev. John M, Currie died in Santa Fe, N.M,, June 6, 1991. Rev. Currie moved to Santa Fe 20 years ago, after his retirement from Lafayette...

George Kalb Davies '22

George Davies died of complications following surgery in Marysville, Tenn., where he lived with Martha Burchfield, his second wife. His first wife, Winnifred...

Edward H. de Coningh '22

ED DE CONINGH died at his home in Shaker Heights, Ohio, May 5, 1991. He is survived by his widow, Martha; two daughters; a son, Edward Jr. '51; nine grandchildren; and...

Mansfield C. Fuldner '22

We are saddened to report that Mans Fuldner died May 25, 1995, at his home in N.Y.C. His daughter, Virginia Steward, had lived with him since his wife died and told us...

Paul Harvey '22

PAUL HARVEY Sr., died peacefully at his home May 8, 1993. Paul was born in the Oklahoma Territory in 1898, and moved to El Paso at 1909. He attended El Paso H.S., then...

Ernest S. Heller '22

Ernest "Pick" Heller died Jan. 25, 1998, at his NYC home. Pick graduated Phi Beta Kappa at age 19 and joined his family's jewelry business. He visited Europe, China, and...

H. Struve Hensel '22

STRUVE HENSEL died in Boca Raton, Fla., of heart failure, after a long battle against nerve disease and emphysema. He had moved from New Jersey in the fall of 1990 and...

Leo August Jiranek '22

LEO AUGUST JIRANEK died of cancer Jan. 27, 1990. Jerry was born Aug. 30, 1900, in Grand Rapids, Mich. He prepared for college at western Military Academy, and after two...

Reginald L. Johnson '22

Reginald L. Johnson, a longtime resident of Riverdale, N.Y., at his home July 1, 1997. He was 96. During the last few months his health had deteriorated, and he...

Nelson Atlee Kenworthy '22

The class lost a determined, independent, traditionalist, and vigorous member when Ken Kenworthy died on May 30, 1989, after having suffered for nearly five years from a...

Edward S. King '22

Ed King died Mar. 8, 1995, in Baltimore. Born in Baltimore Jan. 27, 1900, he prepared at Boys' Latin School there. His friend Alfred H. Barr Jr. '22, the founding...

Rudolf Kirk '22 *32

RUDOLF KIRK died of heart failure in San Marcos, Tex., Nov. 7, 1989, at age 91. Rudolf prepared for Princeton at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. At Princeton...

W. Harding Kneedler '22

Harding Kneedler, our sole surviving classmate class president, died Mar. 21, 2002, at the age of 101. He was Princeton's oldest graduate at the time of his death...

George M. Knowles '22

GEORGE M. KNOWLES died Aug. 22, 1991, at his summer home in Edgartown, Mass. George and his wife, Peg, who survives him, had summered at Edgartown for many years. He had...

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...

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;...

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...

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...

Thomas Stanley Matthews '22

TOM MATTHEWS died Jan. 4, 1991, of lung cancer at his home in Cavendish, England. He was born in Cincinnati, Oh., Jan. 16, 1901. He came to Princeton from St. Paul's...

Baldwin Maull '22

Baldy Maull, one of our most prominent and beloved classmates, died of heart failure Dec. 14, 1995. He was 95. The day before he died, he had traveled from his home at...

George Irwin Mcilwain '22

"Porkey" McIlwain died on Jan. 18, 1989, in Mesa, Ariz., to which he had retired in 1970. He was born in N.Y.C. on May 23, 1900. After graduation, he moved west. On Apr....

Andrew Mcmillan '22

THE CLASS REPORTS that Andrew McMillan died Oct. 14, 1990, in Shorewood, Wisc. He is survived by his widow, Bernice; his daughters Ann McMillan and Constance Carpenter;...

Wilbur Thornton Meek '22

WILBUR MEEK DIED Dec. 8,1990, two months short of his 91st birthday. He was buried in Simsboro, Tenn., his hometown for many years. His wife, Elaine, whom he married in...

Matthew T. Mellon '22

THE CLASS is saddened to report that Matthew T. Mellon died on June 24, 1992, in Miami. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Mellon and the brother of Richard K....

Henry Littleton Page Jr. '22

HENRY (HANK) Littleton Page, a retired coal executive, died June 14, 1989, in Union Memorial Hospital in the Baltimore area. Hank was born at Plattsburgh Barracks on...

Stuart Palmer '22

Stuart Palmer died Apr. 2, 1995, at his home in Palm Coast, Fla. A next door neighbor, who had enjoyed his company for many years, said that he was anxious to rejoin his...

Joseph C. Platt III '22

Joseph Platt died at his home in Madison, Conn., Mar. 16, 1995. After graduating from Princeton, he worked for GE until 1931 and J. Livingston and Co. in N.Y.C. He...

Karl Lott Rankin '22

KARL L. RANKIN, a career diplomat who was ambassador to Taiwan and to Yugoslavia, died Jan. 15, 1991, in Kennebunkport, Me. He was 92 years old and had retired from the...

Arthur Christie Regan '22

ARTHUR C. REGAN died on Oct 21, 1989, at the age of 89, having been born Dec. 4, 1899, in Fessenden, N.D. He came to Princeton from the Blake School for Boys in...

John M. Reynolds '22

OUR DEVOTED and respected former class secretary, John Murray Reynolds, died July 11, 1993, in Deerfield Beach, Fla., where he had moved earlier this year. Although Jack...

William P. Richardson '22

Bill Richardson died of pneumonia at Kent General Hospital in Dover, Del., July 17, 1997. He was 95. Bill was born and lived all his life in Dover, attending local...

Henry Robins '22

Henry Robins died at his home in Mystic, Conn., Feb. 16, 1996. He was 96.According to our records, he was a bachelor and is survived by a nephew and two nieces. His two...

George Rose '22

THE CLASS reports that Mr. George Rose died peacefully Apr. 2, 1991, after a winter of declining health, in Indianapolis. He is survived by his widow, Ernistine Bradford...

William A. Saums '22

BILL SAUMS DIED peacefully Mar. 9, 1993. He was 93. He had moved to Hillsdale, N.Y., from N.Y.C. after retiring as a broker for commercial and industrial real estate. He...

James G. Scarff '22

THE CLASS LOST one of its most dedicated and hard working members Oct. 11, 1992. Jim died peacefully with Iris, Suzy, and Jimmy at his side. He suffered a kidney failure...

Robert H. Scholl '22

Robert H. Scholl, our beloved, esteemed president, died peacefully in his apartment at Cathedral Village in Philadelphia on Feb. 9, 1998. He was 97.Bob graduated from...

Clarence "Clair" Shaffer '22

Clarence "Clair" Shaffer died May 29, 1999, at his home in Winter Park, Fla., after a lengthy period of declining health. He was 104.After he graduated from Princeton,...

A. Russell Slagire '22

RUSS SLAGIE, our lifelong bachelor, died July 4, 1993, at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. Complications arose after he suffered a bad fall in his apartment....

John Hoyt Slawson '22

THE CLASS is saddened to report that Jack Slawson died Feb. 15, 1992, after a series of strokes. He had been in excellent health until that time and around the time of...

Richard K. Stevens '22

RICHARD K. STEVENS died Apr. 15, 1991, in Sarasota, Fla. He is survived by his widow, Dorothy, whom he rnarried in 1979; three children; and ten grandchildren.Dick was a...

Albert Bristol Turner '22

ALBERT "A.B." TURNER DIED in Yarmouth, Me., after a long illness. He was born in New York City and grew up in Chappaqua, N.Y. He served as an insurance sales agent for...

Romeyn Zandt Van Voorhees '22

Romeyn Van Zandt Voorhees died Oct. 20, 1995, in Arvida, Colo. At the time of his death he was living in the Springwood Retirement Community near his son and...

Francis Rawle Wadleigh '22

Whitey Wadleigh died at his home Mar. 29, 1996. He was born in 1899 in Petersburg, Va., and attended the Jefferson School for Boys in Charlottesville and Princeton Prep...

Charles G. Webb '22

THE HONORABLE Charles G. Webb, former senior judge in Tioga County (Penn.), died at the age of 93, in Wellsboro, on May 5, 1992.Ho served two terms as senior judge,...

Roy H. Wenger '22

ROY WENGER died peacefully on Mar. 10, 1993, at the Nursing Care facility in the Messiah Village Retirement Center in Mechanicsburg, Penn., where he had lived for...

Winthrop T. Williams '22

We are saddened to report that Win Williams died Mar. 5, 1995 in his hometown of Westwood Hills, Kan. He was buried there Mar. 11. He was 95. Win was born Sept. 7, 1899...

W. Murray Wilshire '22

The class is saddened to report that Murray Wilshire died at his home in Edgartown, Mass., May 27, 1997. He is survived by his widow, Catherine; three children, William...

Donald Wilson '22

DONALD WILSON died peacefully in his sleep June 15, 1991, after suffering from pneumonia for about a month. He was the youngest of four brothers that attended Princeton,...

Francis C. Wood '22

FRAN WOOD died Dec. 16, 1990, at his home in Haverford, Penn. He was born in South Africa, Oct. 1, 1901. He moved to the U.S. after 12 years and came to Princeton from...

Lawrence Crane Woods Jr. '22

OUR CLASS suffered a real loss with the death of Pete Woods Apr. 25, 1990, in Newtown Square, Penn. Pete was born July 18,1899, in Pittsburgh. When at Princeton, Pete...

Fred T. Woolverton '22

FRED WOOLVERTON DIED in Ponte Vedra Beach June 9, 1993. He had built a home there in 1937 and was considered Ponte Vedra Beach's first resident. Fred moved to Florida in...

Current Issue

Sept. 23, 2009

Memorials by Class: 1922

WE ANNOUNCE with deep sorrow the passing of Albert de Russy Baker in Scarsdale, N.Y., at the age of 9 1. He died in his sleep on July 22, 1992, after a brief illness. Al...

Albert Barnes died at the West Melbourne (Fla.) Health Care Center Aug. 28, 1995, after suffering a stroke on Aug. 7. He had moved from Vero Beach to Melbourne after his...

KEN BARROWS died on Oct. 25, 1987, in Jenkintown, Penn. He was born in Buffalo, N.Y., and prepared for Princeton at Penn Charter School in Philadelphia....

ROBERT C. BROOKE died Dec. 22, 1992, at his winter home in Naples, Fla. His widow, Miriam, reported that he suffered cardiac arrest late in the afternoon, after they...

Everett Needham Case, a former pres. of Colgate U. and vice chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, died July 17, 2000, in Waterville, N.Y. He was 99.Everett's...

MACFARLAND LAFFERTY CATES died at his home on Feb. 2, 1993, at the age of 94. He lived in Spartanburg, S.C., all his life and for many years served as chairman and...

Francis Corcoran died Nov. 4, 1998, at his home in Locust Valley. He was 100. According to his daughter Carol, he died peacefully, with all of his family in attendance....

WILLIAM A. CUDLIPP died June 5, 1991, Jacksonville, Fla., practiced law Jersey City for 50 years, after attending Columbia Univ. Law School. During WWI he served...

THE CLASS reports that the Rev. John M, Currie died in Santa Fe, N.M,, June 6, 1991. Rev. Currie moved to Santa Fe 20 years ago, after his retirement from Lafayette...

George Davies died of complications following surgery in Marysville, Tenn., where he lived with Martha Burchfield, his second wife. His first wife, Winnifred...

ED DE CONINGH died at his home in Shaker Heights, Ohio, May 5, 1991. He is survived by his widow, Martha; two daughters; a son, Edward Jr. '51; nine grandchildren; and...

We are saddened to report that Mans Fuldner died May 25, 1995, at his home in N.Y.C. His daughter, Virginia Steward, had lived with him since his wife died and told us...

PAUL HARVEY Sr., died peacefully at his home May 8, 1993. Paul was born in the Oklahoma Territory in 1898, and moved to El Paso at 1909. He attended El Paso H.S., then...

Ernest "Pick" Heller died Jan. 25, 1998, at his NYC home. Pick graduated Phi Beta Kappa at age 19 and joined his family's jewelry business. He visited Europe, China, and...

STRUVE HENSEL died in Boca Raton, Fla., of heart failure, after a long battle against nerve disease and emphysema. He had moved from New Jersey in the fall of 1990 and...

LEO AUGUST JIRANEK died of cancer Jan. 27, 1990. Jerry was born Aug. 30, 1900, in Grand Rapids, Mich. He prepared for college at western Military Academy, and after two...

Reginald L. Johnson, a longtime resident of Riverdale, N.Y., at his home July 1, 1997. He was 96. During the last few months his health had deteriorated, and he...

The class lost a determined, independent, traditionalist, and vigorous member when Ken Kenworthy died on May 30, 1989, after having suffered for nearly five years from a...

Ed King died Mar. 8, 1995, in Baltimore. Born in Baltimore Jan. 27, 1900, he prepared at Boys' Latin School there. His friend Alfred H. Barr Jr. '22, the founding...

RUDOLF KIRK died of heart failure in San Marcos, Tex., Nov. 7, 1989, at age 91. Rudolf prepared for Princeton at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. At Princeton...

Harding Kneedler, our sole surviving classmate class president, died Mar. 21, 2002, at the age of 101. He was Princeton's oldest graduate at the time of his death...

GEORGE M. KNOWLES died Aug. 22, 1991, at his summer home in Edgartown, Mass. George and his wife, Peg, who survives him, had summered at Edgartown for many years. He had...

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...

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;...

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...

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...

TOM MATTHEWS died Jan. 4, 1991, of lung cancer at his home in Cavendish, England. He was born in Cincinnati, Oh., Jan. 16, 1901. He came to Princeton from St. Paul's...

Baldy Maull, one of our most prominent and beloved classmates, died of heart failure Dec. 14, 1995. He was 95. The day before he died, he had traveled from his home at...

"Porkey" McIlwain died on Jan. 18, 1989, in Mesa, Ariz., to which he had retired in 1970. He was born in N.Y.C. on May 23, 1900. After graduation, he moved west. On Apr....

THE CLASS REPORTS that Andrew McMillan died Oct. 14, 1990, in Shorewood, Wisc. He is survived by his widow, Bernice; his daughters Ann McMillan and Constance Carpenter;...

WILBUR MEEK DIED Dec. 8,1990, two months short of his 91st birthday. He was buried in Simsboro, Tenn., his hometown for many years. His wife, Elaine, whom he married in...

THE CLASS is saddened to report that Matthew T. Mellon died on June 24, 1992, in Miami. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Mellon and the brother of Richard K....

HENRY (HANK) Littleton Page, a retired coal executive, died June 14, 1989, in Union Memorial Hospital in the Baltimore area. Hank was born at Plattsburgh Barracks on...

Stuart Palmer died Apr. 2, 1995, at his home in Palm Coast, Fla. A next door neighbor, who had enjoyed his company for many years, said that he was anxious to rejoin his...

Joseph Platt died at his home in Madison, Conn., Mar. 16, 1995. After graduating from Princeton, he worked for GE until 1931 and J. Livingston and Co. in N.Y.C. He...

KARL L. RANKIN, a career diplomat who was ambassador to Taiwan and to Yugoslavia, died Jan. 15, 1991, in Kennebunkport, Me. He was 92 years old and had retired from the...

ARTHUR C. REGAN died on Oct 21, 1989, at the age of 89, having been born Dec. 4, 1899, in Fessenden, N.D. He came to Princeton from the Blake School for Boys in...

OUR DEVOTED and respected former class secretary, John Murray Reynolds, died July 11, 1993, in Deerfield Beach, Fla., where he had moved earlier this year. Although Jack...

Bill Richardson died of pneumonia at Kent General Hospital in Dover, Del., July 17, 1997. He was 95. Bill was born and lived all his life in Dover, attending local...

Henry Robins died at his home in Mystic, Conn., Feb. 16, 1996. He was 96.According to our records, he was a bachelor and is survived by a nephew and two nieces. His two...

THE CLASS reports that Mr. George Rose died peacefully Apr. 2, 1991, after a winter of declining health, in Indianapolis. He is survived by his widow, Ernistine Bradford...

BILL SAUMS DIED peacefully Mar. 9, 1993. He was 93. He had moved to Hillsdale, N.Y., from N.Y.C. after retiring as a broker for commercial and industrial real estate. He...

THE CLASS LOST one of its most dedicated and hard working members Oct. 11, 1992. Jim died peacefully with Iris, Suzy, and Jimmy at his side. He suffered a kidney failure...

Robert H. Scholl, our beloved, esteemed president, died peacefully in his apartment at Cathedral Village in Philadelphia on Feb. 9, 1998. He was 97.Bob graduated from...

Clarence "Clair" Shaffer died May 29, 1999, at his home in Winter Park, Fla., after a lengthy period of declining health. He was 104.After he graduated from Princeton,...

RUSS SLAGIE, our lifelong bachelor, died July 4, 1993, at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. Complications arose after he suffered a bad fall in his apartment....

THE CLASS is saddened to report that Jack Slawson died Feb. 15, 1992, after a series of strokes. He had been in excellent health until that time and around the time of...

RICHARD K. STEVENS died Apr. 15, 1991, in Sarasota, Fla. He is survived by his widow, Dorothy, whom he rnarried in 1979; three children; and ten grandchildren.Dick was a...

ALBERT "A.B." TURNER DIED in Yarmouth, Me., after a long illness. He was born in New York City and grew up in Chappaqua, N.Y. He served as an insurance sales agent for...

Romeyn Van Zandt Voorhees died Oct. 20, 1995, in Arvida, Colo. At the time of his death he was living in the Springwood Retirement Community near his son and...

Whitey Wadleigh died at his home Mar. 29, 1996. He was born in 1899 in Petersburg, Va., and attended the Jefferson School for Boys in Charlottesville and Princeton Prep...

THE HONORABLE Charles G. Webb, former senior judge in Tioga County (Penn.), died at the age of 93, in Wellsboro, on May 5, 1992.Ho served two terms as senior judge,...

ROY WENGER died peacefully on Mar. 10, 1993, at the Nursing Care facility in the Messiah Village Retirement Center in Mechanicsburg, Penn., where he had lived for...

We are saddened to report that Win Williams died Mar. 5, 1995 in his hometown of Westwood Hills, Kan. He was buried there Mar. 11. He was 95. Win was born Sept. 7, 1899...

The class is saddened to report that Murray Wilshire died at his home in Edgartown, Mass., May 27, 1997. He is survived by his widow, Catherine; three children, William...

DONALD WILSON died peacefully in his sleep June 15, 1991, after suffering from pneumonia for about a month. He was the youngest of four brothers that attended Princeton,...

FRAN WOOD died Dec. 16, 1990, at his home in Haverford, Penn. He was born in South Africa, Oct. 1, 1901. He moved to the U.S. after 12 years and came to Princeton from...

OUR CLASS suffered a real loss with the death of Pete Woods Apr. 25, 1990, in Newtown Square, Penn. Pete was born July 18,1899, in Pittsburgh. When at Princeton, Pete...

FRED WOOLVERTON DIED in Ponte Vedra Beach June 9, 1993. He had built a home there in 1937 and was considered Ponte Vedra Beach's first resident. Fred moved to Florida in...