Current Issue
Nov. 4, 2009
Vol. 110, No. 4
Memorials
Memorials by Class: 1946
H. Osborne Aaron '46
Osborne Aaron died June 9, 2008, in Wilmington, Del. He was 84. Ozzie was born in Wilmington, grew up in New Jersey, and entered Princeton from Phillips Academy. He...
James Crittenden Adams '46
JIM ADAMS died of respiratory failure in Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta on Feb. 19, 1993. Jim joined the Class in 1942 and left to serve with Patton's Third Army in France...
H. Edward Alleman Jr. '46
Ted was born in Pennsylvania and died in Tuxedo Park, N.Y., on May 11, 2000, of a stroke and Parkinson's disease.Coming from Pennsylvania Military Academy, he served two...
Frederick Abels Allner Jr. '46
Fred died Dec. 27, 2003, of pneumonia in Washington, D.C., where he had lived since retiring from a 32-year career with the CIA.A native of Baltimore, he entered...
George William Andrews '46
After a long battle with Parkinson's disease, George died Aug. 1, 1999, in St. Louis, Mo., his home since birth.There he attended John Burroughs School before entering...
William Cooke Andrews '46
Bill entered Princeton in 1942 from Woodberry Forest School. He was a premed student in the Navy V-12 program and was accepted to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine at...
Nicholas G. Andrews '46
Nicholas Andrews died Aug. 27, 2010, in his home in Newport Beach, Calif. His wife of 64 years, Dana Romalo Andrews, was at his side. Nick spent his childhood in...
James I. Anthony '46
Jim died July 23, 2004, of prostate cancer in Atlanta, Ga.Since 1982 Jim Marty, his wife of 52 years, had lived in Vero Beach, Fla., where he enjoyed golf, tennis...
Philip Aziz Atiyeh '46
Phil died Jan. 2, 2002, in Avon, Conn., where he had lived for the past 17 years with his wife of 50 years, Elaine. A graduate of Adelphi HS in Brooklyn, he studied...
George W. Aufderheide Jr. '46
George died Apr. 4, 2004 at his home in Fairfield, Conn., where he lived with his wife, Gayle ("Gay").A Choate School graduate from Pittsburgh, he entered Princeton in...
William James Baird '46
Bill Baird died of cancer June 16, 2006, in West Vancouver, British Columbia, where he had lived since 1972 with his wife, Anne. Born in Philadelphia, he attended the...
Harold William Baker '46
Harold Baker died Dec. 29, 2008, in Louisville, Ky., after a valiant struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. After graduating from Princeton, Hal went on to Johns Hopkins...
Donald H. Balleisen '46
DON BALLEISEN DIED in Louisville, Ky., July 29, 1993. Don was always an active Princetonian, serving as class V.P., a member of the Alumni Council, chairman of the New...
Archibald Bard '46
Archie Bard died of cancer May 7, 2009. He was born Oct. 29, 1923, in Port Hueneme, Calif. His father was Richard Bard 1915 of Ventura County, Calif. Archie prepped...
John Kevin Barry '46
Jack Barry died of cancer at his home in Sewickley, Penn., Jan. 9, 1995. Jack prepared at Western Reserve Academy. He became a naval officer after training with the V-12...
Philip Bradley Bartholomay '46
Phil died Aug. 7, 2002, of heart failure at his Santa Barbara, Calif., home. Graduating from the Cate School in 1942, he entered Princeton to study architecture. He...
Robert D. Bartlett Jr. '46
Robert Bartlett died in Easton, Md., Jan. 13, 2008. He was born in Baltimore, prepared at South Kent (Conn.) School, and entered Princeton in 1942. A year later he...
C. L. Andrew Bassett '46
Andy Bassett died Nov. 14, 1994, of a brain tumor at his home in Bronxville, N.Y.Andy entered Princeton the fall of 1941, but his studies were interrupted by the war. He...
Kingman Bassett '46
KINGMAN BASSFIT DIED Aug. 22, 1993, at his summer home in Rose Hill, Canada, after a long and courageous fight against prostate cancer. King was born July 11, 1924, in...
Hyman L. Battle Jr. '46
Hy died Mar. 6, 2002, at home in Sagaponack, N.Y., of cancer. A native of Rocky Mount, N.C. , where his father was president of the family-owned Rocky Mount Mills, the...
Hyman L. Battle Jr. '46
Hy died Mar. 6, 2002, of cancer at home in Sagaponack, Long Island. A native of Rocky Mount, N.C., where his father was president of the family-owned Rocky Mount Mills,...
Gardner W. Beckett Jr. '46
GARDNER BECKETT DIED Mar. 22, 1993, in Tampa, while arguing a racialdiscrimination suit in the federal court there. Gardner was born in Tampa and grew up in...
Peele Beebe '46
Peele died Jan. 13, 2002, in Santa Barbara, Calif., of lung cancer. A graduate of Brooklyn Polytechnical School, he played football and rowed crew. He spent three years...
PHILIP WILKES BELL '46 *54
Philip Bell was born New York City and died Kennett Square, Pa., Aug. 1, 2007, at age 82. He and his family were active Quakers. He came to Princeton from Exeter...
Richard Cushing Bell '46
Dick Bell died Mar. 4, 1996, in New Orleans from liver failure resulting from hepatitis. Dick had recovered from a stroke in 1994 and seemed in fine shape until this hit...
Charles Luther Best '46
Charlie died June 21, 2004, in Easton, Pa.A graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School, he entered Princeton in 1942 to study mechanical engineering. Enjoying rugby,...
Frederick Billings '46
FREDEIUCK BILLINGS, man of amicable wit, died June 13, 1990. Rick arrived at Princeton from Berkshire School in 1942, majored in English (and George Bernard Shaw). He...
Thomas Wilson Wyatt Binford '46
Tom died Jan. 14, 1999, of a cerebral hemorrhage, in Indianapolis. He had lived and worked there his whole life, except for school at Exeter, Army duty in the South...
Thomas Wilson Wyatt Binford '46
Tom died Jan. 14, 1999, of a cerebral hemorrhage, in Indianapolis. He had lived and worked there his entire life, except for his years at Exeter, in the Army with South...
William K. Bixby '46
Bill “Bix” Bixby died peacefully March 21, 2010, at his retirement home in Melbourne, Fla. He was born in St. Louis in 1924 and came to Princeton in June 1942....
Charles Gordon Blackadar '46
Gordon died July 16, 2006, at home in Doylestown, Pa. Born in Plainfield, N.J., he served in the Army as a second lieutenant. After discharge in 1946, he developed a...
Lawrence Dilworth Blair Jr. '46
Larry died, after a long illness, on Aug. 17, 1999, at Tamalpais Retirement Home in Greenbrae, Calif., where he had lived since 1953.Brought up in Pittsburgh, the son of...
Huntington T. Block '46
Huntington T. Block died of cancer Feb. 25, 2008, in his native Washington, D.C. Known as “Bucky” after the Washington Senators’ 1924 World...
H. Kurt Blumberg '46
Kurt Blumberg, whom we knew as Skeets, died April 17, 2008, in Edgartown, Mass., after a long illness. He was 82. Skeets came to Princeton in 1942, and joined the Army...
Earl Dudley Boorman Jr. '46
Earl Boorman died Jan. 13, 2006, at home in Louisville, Ky. He had retired there in 1986 after a long career as a refrigeration engineer with General Electric.A graduate...
James N. Bray '46
Jim Bray died Feb. 11, 2007, in Pompton Plains, N.J. At Princeton he majored in SPIA and roomed in Holder. After graduation he was affiliated with an American cement...
Daniel Baugh Brewster '46
Daniel Brewster died Aug. 19, 2007, of liver cancer at his home in Owings Mills, Md. He was 83. Dan came to Princeton from St. Paul's School in 1942 and volunteered in...
Charles A. Brown '46
Treas. Charlie Brown, age 77, died of cancer on Nov. 11, 2000, in West Chester, Pa., where he lived and near where he was born. He prepared for Princeton at the...
Howard J. Brown '46
Howard Brown died of stomach cancer April 29, 2011, at home in Kenosha, Wis. Born July 31, 1923, in Chicago, he graduated from the Laboratory School of the...
James Junkin Buchanan '46 *54
Jim, son of trustee emeritus John G. Buchanan 1909, died peacefully in his hometown of Pittsburgh Dec. 5, 2004.Jim came to Princeton in 1942 from Shady Side Academy. He...
J. Mahlon Buck Jr. '46
Jim Buck died March 16, 2011, of heart failure at his home in Haverford, Pa. Jim, a man of many interests, and his brothers were involved part owners of the...
William A. Buell Jr. '46
Bill Buell died Nov. 1, 2011, at home in Middletown, R.I., with his wife, Mary, at his side. A skilled ocean sailor, he enjoyed the sea view from his house, to which he...
Samuel A. Burns II '46
SAM, ONE OF OUR STALWARTS, died may 1, 1991, in Vero Beach, Fla., of complications from cancer.He was born in Harrisburg, Penn., and attended Mercersburg Academy before...
Robert Campbell Jr. '46
Robert Campbell died Feb. 25, 1999, of metastatic melanoma in Short Hills, N.J.After Lawrenceville, Bob entered Princeton but transferred to Cornell with the Navy V-12...
John W. Carr '46
Jack Carr died in hospice care in Danvers, Mass., Aug 20, 2006. His wife of 15 years, Marjorie Vietor Kittedge, was by his side. Born in Flushing, N.Y., he graduated...
Norman Bruce Carson '46
Norman Carson died May 30, 2009, at his home in Addison, Vt. Bruce was born and raised in St. Louis, where he graduated from St. Louis Country Day School. He entered...
Charles William Casgrain II '46
Charlie "Cazz" died June 22, 1996, at his home in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.Charlie came to Princeton from Portsmouth Priory School, R.I., and entered the School of...
Harold Mackay Cashmore '46
Mac died Dec. 5, 2005, in Virginia Beach, Va.He joined the class from the Pingry School in September 1942. An engineer, he served in the Navy from 1943 to 1946 as an...
Charles F. Schibener Jr. '46
Charles Schibener Jr. died Dec. 14, 2007. He came to Princeton from the Friends Central School in Philadelphia, and after his freshman year spent...
Peter Thomson Chew '46
Pete Chew died of a heart attack in Washington, D.C., July 16, 2006. He lived there since 1954, working as a reporter and independent writer. Born in New Rochelle,...
Arthur C. Close '46 *50
Arthur Close died June 19, 2010, in his home in McLean, Va., of Parkinson’s disease and a blood disorder. He was 85. Art was born in Beirut, Lebanon, where his...
Robert Bennett Congleton '46
Bob died March 29, 2005, of heart failure at his home in Lexington, Ky.He came to Princeton in1943 after Darlington School in Rome, Ga., and the University of Kentucky....
Joseph Eugene Conlon '46
Joe Conlon died Dec. 8, 1995, at his home Orange, N.J. Joe graduated from the Peddie School. He served the Army Air Force for three years, returning to Princeton...
John M. Coward '46
JOHN DIED at home in Essex Fells, N.J., July 24, 1991, following a lengthy struggle against cancer, during which he never lost his zest for life or his sense of humor....
Albert Burchfield Craig Jr. '46
Albert Craig died April 4, 2008, in Rochester, N.Y., where he had been associated with the University of Rochester School of Medicine for many years. Al prepared at...
Francis X. Critchlow '46
Frank died peacefully Jan. 4, 2011, at home. He was born Dec. 18, 1923, in Princeton, N.J., and attended local schools before entering Princeton University in summer...
Jean Alonzo Curran Jr. '46
Jac died Mar. 10, 2003, at home in Easton, Md. Born in Fenchow, China, in 1924, he was the son of missionaries. After returning to Brooklyn, he attended South Kent...
Paul Ozcar D'Esterhazy '46
PAUL DIED on Jan. 1, 1988, after an extremely long and gallant fight against cancer.Paul joined in Sept. 1942, and several months later enlisted in the Amy, being...
Ralph Emerson Davis Jr. '46
Ralph died Nov. 13, 2002, of pneumonia near his home in Vail, Colo. Born in Pittsburgh, he prepped at Mercersburg Academy to enter Princeton in engineering. He left for...
Otis Benson Davis '46
Otis “O.B.” Davis died Oct. 26, 2009, at home in Kent, Conn., after brief illness. He was 85. He graduated from Kent School in 1942, returning there in 1949 to teach...
Genest de Larbre '46
Genest de L'Arbre died July 14, 2003, in Reno, Nev., where he lived with his wife of 55 years, Jean.A native of Belgium, he came to America in 1940 as a refugee from...
Judson Decker '46
Jud died June 10, 2002, of a stroke, at his home in Birmingham, Mich. He came to Princeton from West Waterloo HS in the fall of 1942, entering the Army's 10th Mountain...
James W. Demmel '46
Jim died Mar. 10 , 2000, of Alzheimer's disease after a long illness. A Pittsburgh native, he came to Princeton from Kiski Preparatory School. Joining the Marine V-12...
George Washington Devoe '46
Self-styled country lawyer George W. DeVoe died Jan. 12, 2004, at his longtime home in Highland Park, N.J.A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, he entered Princeton in...
John B. Dewolf '46
John died Feb. 19, 2000, in Wayne, Pa., of a stroke he first suffered in 1993. Although a Yale '44 student, he served in the army from 1942-43, then as an employee of...
Willis Frederick Doney Jr. '46 *49
Bill died July 2, 2005, of pneumonia in Boston.Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., he prepped at Shadyside Academy. Majoring in philosophy as an undergraduate, he later earned a...
John O Joseph Donnell '46
Jack died Aug. 17, 2004, of kidney failure at his home in Boulder, Colo.He came to Princeton from East Orange [N.J.] High in 1942 for engineering, joined the Navy V-12...
Robert F. Donovan '46
Bob "Rock" Donovan died Feb. 4, 2004, at home in Closter, N.J., with his beloved wife of 54 years, Jeanne, and all his family at his side, after a long illness which,...
James R. Duke '46
An outstanding ophthalmologist, Jim Duke, in his mind’s eye, could clearly see F. Scott Fitzgerald ’17, for Jim owned and lived in the Baltimore house in which...
Edwin Rice Dwelle '46
EDWIN RICE DWELLE died Nov. 22, 1992, after a brief bout with cancer. Ned was a graduate of King School, Stamford, Conn., joining our Class in June 1942. In November, he...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Robert E. Fenstermacher '46
BOB DIED Jan. 12, 1991, after a lengthy, difficult illness: quadruple bypass and acute leukemia.Bob graduated from Salisbury before joining us, left for service in the...
William J. Fewell '46
Bill died Mar. 20, 2001, in Philadelphia, where he was born. After Kent School he entered Princeton but left a year later to serve in the Navy until May 1946 and...
John M.T. Finney III '46
John Finney died March 18, 2007, at age 85, in Lutherville, Md. The cause of his death was pneumonia. He was at Princeton for part of 1943 before enlisting in the...
David H. Finnie '46
Dave died Apr. 12, 2003 of cancer at his home in New Canaan, Conn. A native of Grosse Pointe, Mich., he graduated from the Hotchkiss School before entering Princeton in...
John D. Fischbeck Jr. '46
JOHN D. FLSCHBECK JR. died July 24, 1992, in Charlottesville, Va., after a short pulmonary illness. John was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Bloomfield, N.J., and joined...
Richard Armitage Forsling '46
Richard A. Forsling died Mar. 22, 1997, in Berkeley, Calif., of prostate cancer.Born in Ogden, Utah, Dick majored at Princeton in politics in the SPIA. He played...
Pell W. Foster III '46
PELL FOSLER DIED Apr. 30, 1993, in Easton, Conn., after a long and courageous battle against cancer. Pell was born in Andover, Mass., and went to Phillips Academy. He...
Theodore Foulk '46
TED FOULK lived a wonderfully rich and inspiring life through June 4, 1990, when, at home, overlooking his beloved Vermont valley, among family and friends, he...
Richard M. French '46
Dick died June 17, 2003, at home in Versailles, Ky.He came to Princeton in 1942 after graduating from Mount Sterling [Ky.] High to major in biology as a premedical...
Robert N. Fuleihan '46
Bob died at Cedarfield Retirement Home in Richmond, Va., Aug. 5, 2003.After high school in East Orange, N.J., he attended Upsala College before joining the Air Force. He...
Robert Ayres Furman '46
Bob died Sept. 21, 2002, at University Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.Born in Newark, N.J., he captained the basketball team at Phillips Exeter Academy and entered...
Robert E. Gajdusek '46
A prolific author and poet, Robin died peacefully at home in California June 26, 2003.Born in Yonkers, N.Y., he entered Princeton in Jan. 1943 after graduating from...
Allan A. Gilbert '46
Allan Gilbert died of respiratory complications March 25, 2009, in Cortland Manor, N.Y. He was 84. Al came to Princeton from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. He...
Stanton G. Gillespie '46
Stan died Nov. 27, 2004, at home in Sharon, Conn.Born in Short Hills, N.J., he entered Princeton in 1942 to study engineering but left for the Navy's V-12 program at...
Thomas James Gillespie III '46
Thomas Gillespie died March 9, 2009, in Valencia, Pa. Tom was born in Pittsburgh and came to Princeton in 1942. He spent the war in the Army infantry in Belgium and...
Mortimer Worth Glover III '46
Mortimer W. Glover III died in Augusta, Ga., Feb. 13, 2009. He was 84. Born in Hartsville, S.C., to the Rev. Mortimer Glover Jr. and Gladys E. Alexandra, Mort entered...
Robert L. Goldemberg '46
The following memorial incorporates a correction of the version published in the July 15, 2009, edition. Robert Goldemberg died Oct. 1, 2008. His last residence was...
Donald A. Good '46
Don died of a stroke Jan. 11, 2006, at Bermuda Village in Advance, N.C.A native of Hackettstown, N.J., he attended Blair Academy before coming to Princeton in 1942. He...
Frederic Sutterle Gordon Jr. '46
Fred died Sept. 16, 2004, in Culpeper, Va., where he had run the family farm for some 20 years.Born in Elizabeth, N.J., he graduated from Pingry School and studied...
Ralph T. Gordon '46
Ralph died Nov. 28, 2000, of lung cancer in California, where he made his home in Belvedere with his wife of 54 years, Patricia. He came to Princeton from the Hill...
Donald H. Gordon '46
Donald Gordon died March 28, 2011, at his home in Honolulu, Hawaii. Born in Brookline, Mass., he attended high school there. Entering Princeton in June 1942, he...
Aubrey Kenneth Gorman '46
Aubrey died Aug. 26, 2002, of lung disease in Rockport, Maine, near his Camden home. A Baltimorean, he prepped at the Gilman School.Joining the Air Force in 1943, he...
Earl D. Gould '46
Earl died May 11, 2007, in Sealy, Texas. He was 83 and a longtime petroleum engineer for Conoco Oil Co. Earl is survived by his wife, Joyce; sons Bart, Steve, and Tony;...
Charles Louis Gray Jr. '46
CHUCK GR&Y DIED Sept. 9, 1990. Joining us from Deerfield, he majored in chemistry, left for service in the Army and returned to receive his A.B.Most of Chuck's business...
Eugene P. Gross '46 *49
EUGENE DIED in Jan. 1991 of pancreatic cancer. He was 64 and lived in Waltham, Mass.Eugene received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at Princeton and became...
William Pendleton Hackney '46
Bill Hackney died at home in Shadyside, Pa., July 31, 2006. Born June 5, 1924, in Uniontown, Pa., he graduated from Shadyside Academy in 1942 and entered Princeton. He...
Wendell Smoot Hall Sr. '46
Wendell died Sept. 30, 2006, in Wilmington, Del., after a yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 82. He attended the Friends School and Mercersburg Academy...
Robert Lee Hall '46
Bob Hall died Sept. 11, 1998, in NYC, after several years of illness.Raised in New Jersey, Bob studied philosophy and art at Princeton. After service in the Navy Air...
George Munn Hanford '46
The summer of ’42 brought John to Princeton from Kent School, where Spanish had become his “foremost love in matters academic,” he said. The winter of 1943 saw him in...
James Mott Hartshorne '46
Jim Hartshorne died Dec. 22, 1994, of cancer. From Princeton, Jim went to Cornell with the V-12 contingent, eventually joining the Marine Corps as a 2d lt. He received...
William B. Hawke Jr. '46
BILL HAWKE DIED May 18, 1993, just after moving to Charleston, S.C., where he had hoped to enjoy his retirement next to the ocean, which he loved. Bill prepared at...
Harry R. Hayes Jr. '46
Harry died June 16, 2004, of cancer.A lifelong resident of Albany, N.Y., he graduated from Albany High School and in 1942 entered Princeton, where he majored in SPIA...
Robert D. Hazlett '46
Bob died Dec. 4, 1996 at his home Fox Chapel Pittsburgh, Pa. He was 72.A lifelong Pittsburgher, he graduated from Shady Side Academy there, and entered Princeton...
John L. Heath '46
John Heath died at home in Lake Forest, Ill., Sept. 12, 1995, after a long and courageous struggle against cancer. John grew up in Highland Park, Ill., and attended...
Arthur T. Hedden Jr. '46
Art died May 6, 1997, at Community Medical Center in Toms River, N.J., after a brave battle with lymphomatic cancer. A lifelong bachelor, Art was born in Trenton, and...
Arthur T. Hedden Jr. '46
Art died May 6, 1997, at Community Medical Center in Toms River, N.J., after a brave battle with lymphomatic cancer. A lifelong bachelor, Art was born in Trenton and...
Jackson E. Heffner '46
Jackson Heffner died peacefully Jan. 3, 2011, at his son’s home in Cookeville, Tenn. Born in San Francisco Dec. 1, 1924, he grew up in Morristown, N.J. After...
Donald Robert Hegstrom '46
DONALD ROBERT HEGSTROM died Dec. 15, 1992. He was born in New Ulm, Minn., and spent his early years in Red Wing. He joined our Class in 1942, after graduating from...
James Buckelew Helme '46
Jim died June 7, 1996, at home in Nashville, Tenn. He had just attended our 50th reunion, where he enjoyed renewing friendships.A Choate School honors graduate, Jim...
Corty Herbst '46
Corty died Nov. 19, 2000, near his home in Maharees, Castlegregory, in County Kerry, Ireland. He had lived there since 1969 with his wife, Joan, whom he married in 1961....
Philip Reginald Herzig '46
Phil died suddenly of heart failure Feb. 20, 2004.A lifelong resident of Great Neck, N.Y., he prepped at the Peddie School and entered Princeton in 1942. After serving...
Lawrence E. Hess Jr. '46
Larry died Nov. 30, 2000, of cancer, at home in Fort Washington, Pa. He was 77. He came to Princeton in June 1942 after graduating from Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pa....
Harrison Hoblitzelle '46
Hob died Nov. 22, 2001, at his home in Cambridge, Mass. A native of St. Louis, he graduated from St. Paul's School and entered Princeton in 1942, graduating with honors...
Edgar Earle Holland '46
TED HOLLAND DIED in Encinitas, Calif., after a long illness, following bypass surgery and culminating in pneumonia. He knew he was going downhill for the last several...
Barr Howard '46
Barr Howard died Aug. 17, 2005, in a nursing home in Nanuet, N.Y.He was a resident for many years of Cos Cob, Conn. and before that of Rye, N.Y. A graduate of Taft...
David Hardie Hutchinson '46 *49
DAVE HUTCHINSON died Dec. 4, 199 1, after a brief battle against cancer. Hutch was born in Chicago, attended the Hill School, and received both his B.S.E. and M.A. from...
George S. Indig '46
George S. Indig died July 30, 2006. Born in New York City, he earned a bachelor’s in engineering at Princeton, where he played varsity football. Briefly in the Army...
Mathew Intner '46
Mathew Intner died July 6, 2008, at home in Silver Spring, Md., after battling emphysema for more than a decade. He entered Princeton in 1942 and then joined the Navy...
William Andrew Jackson '46
Bill died April 2, 2005, in Walnut Creek, Calif., after a brief illness.He came to Princeton in the summer of 1942, a graduate of Western Military Academy in Alton,...
Gale Pollard Johnson '46
GALE POLLARD JOHNSON died Aug. 10, 199 1, at the age of 66. He and his wife, Paula, seldom missed a major Princeton reunion and indeed they were planning to return to...
Albert Rathbone Johnson '46
Al Johnson, a resident of Glen Allen, Va., died April 14, 2007. He prepared at the Taft School, and after matriculating at Princeton, joined the Army, from which he was...
Thaddeus Crane Jones '46
Thaddeus Jones died July 16, 2008, in Laguna Beach, Calif., where he had been in private practice for many years. Thad was born in Pasadena and attended the Catalina...
S. Scott Spencer Jr '46
Bud died May 9, 2002, of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Typically, to the end, he bolstered the spirits of his beloved Debbie, partner of 51 years, and their sons, Sam and...
Walter Samuel Furlow Jr. '46
Walter S. Furlow died Jan. 14, 2008, in Washington, D.C., from a brain injury resulting from a fall in 2001. He was 82. Sam entered Princeton in the V-12 program in the...
Samuel H. Kauffmann III '46
Sam died Apr. 4, 2002, in Palm Springs, Calif., of cancer. He grew up in Washington, DC, where his father owned the Washington Evening Star. He attended St. Albans...
Stuart Ellsworth Keebler '46
Stuart Keebler died June 14, 2008, in New York City, where he had lived most of his life. At Princeton he roomed at Lockhart and Brown, majored in economics, and was...
John George Kemeney '46 *71
JOHN KEMENEY '46 *49 h7l, distinguished mathematician, president of Dartmouth College, and creator of the computer language BASIC, died Dec. 26, 1992. He was 66.Born in...
R. Douglas Kerr '46
Douglas Kerr died Feb. 17, 2008, in Richmond, Va. He came to Princeton from Greenwich, Conn., in 1942, was a member of Tiger Inn, and graduated with a degree in...
Kenneth William Keuffel '46
Ken Keuffel, the Lawrenceville School's beloved football coach and English professor for 41 years, died of prostate cancer Feb. 19, 2006.A native of Montclair, N.J., Ken...
Alan Jones Kirsch '46
Alan Kirsch, of Bala Cynwyd, Pa., died July 4, 2006, of cancer. He grew up in Bala Cynwyd and graduated from the Lawrenceville School. He entered Princeton in 1942 and...
Edwin Leonard Knetzger Jr. '46
Ed Knetzger of Bryn Mawr, Pa., died Dec. 27, 2003, of pulmonary fibrosis.Born in St. Louis, he came to Princeton in 1942 from Webster Groves HS, majored in economics,...
Tilghman B. Koons '46
Skip Koons died July 7, 2005, at home in East Hampton, N.Y.A native of Plainfield, N.J., where he attended high school, he entered Princeton in 1943 to major in the...
John Erdmann Kuser '46
John Kuser died Aug. 25, 2008, in Princeton after suffering for five years from a rare neurological disease. He was born in New York City and entered Princeton at the...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.,...
John H. Macfadyen '46 *49
John MacFadyen died Feb. 18, 2000, in Damariscotta, Maine, near the village of Head Tide, where he and his wife, Mary-Esther, made their home. The cause of death was...
Patrick Charles Maloney '46
OUR OWN "TRUE TIGER" died in Jan. 1990 of respiratory arrest after a very brief illness.Pat arrived with us from Roosevelt High in Yonkers and roomed with "Mumbo" King....
Donald Cortlandt Manders '46
Don Manders died Nov. 25, 2006, at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville. He was 82. He prepped at Phillips Exeter Academy, majored in SPIA at...
William Raae Mangum '46
RAAE, "THE SAGE of Rocky Mount, N.C.," died May 12, 1989, after battling throat cancer for a year.Raae came to us from Rocky Mount High School in the summer of 1942. He...
Williams Manning '46
Bill died Feb. 5, 2001, at his longtime hometown, Macon, Ga. Coming to Princeton from Baylor School in 1942, he began in engineering but left for the Navy Air Force in...
Robert Louis Massey '46
Bob died Jan. 8, 2002, of pneumonia. He had moved back to his native Caldwell, N.J., area from a home in Stamford, Conn., where he was active in the International...
Richard L. Matthews '46
Dick died Sept. 27, 2000, in Vero Beach, Fla., of cancer. From Lawrenceville School, he majored in mathematics at Princeton. He served in the navy as a pilot from...
Donald Ellis May '46
Don died Jan. 23, 2002, in Camp Hill, Pa. Born to missionary parents in Paris, Don was schooled in Cameroon, Africa, and later at Mercersburg Academy.He attended college...
George A. McAlmon Jr. '46
George McAlmon died in El Paso, Texas, March 23, 2010, of a massive stroke. He was 84. He entered Princeton at age 16 and earned his bachelor's degree from the...
R. Searle McGrath '46
Searle died of heart failure Feb. 27, 2007, in Midland, Texas, where he had lived many years. He lost his left eye in a childhood accident, but in spite of that, became...
Rowland P. McKinley '46
“Skip” McKinley died July 31, 2006, at home in St. Augustine, Fla. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pa., he graduated from Phillips Andover and entered Princeton in 1942. He joined...
Thomas Vaughan Mcmahon '46
Tom died Feb. 17, 2004, at his home in Westhampton Beach, N.Y.Born in Brooklyn, he came to Princeton from Poly Prep. In college he played baseball and studied French. He...
Alfred Peter Mcnulty '46 *50
Al, regarded as "the dean of construction management" in Cleveland, died there May 10, 1998, of prostate cancer. He was 73. He was the founder and president of Applied...
William Donald Melosh '46
BILL DIED at his home in Upper Montclair, N.J., on May 9, 1989, after a prolonged illness.Bill joined us in the summer of 1942 from Ridgewood High School. He...
John B. Merrell '46
Jack died Feb. 7, 2010. He had lived in Short Hills, N.J., and Stamford, Conn., for many years. Jack came to Princeton from Scotch Plains, N.J., and enrolled as a...
Edward Willoughby Middleton Jr. '46
E. Willoughby "Wib" Middleton died Oct. 11, 2003, after a long illness, in Rochester, N.Y., where he lived and worked most of his life.He attended Exeter, living off...
Ross Livingston Miller '46
Ross Miller, known to us as Bud, died July 9, 1999, at Middlesex Hospital near his home in Madison, Conn., after a brief illness. He graduated from Deerfield in 1942 and...
Edwin Duncan Miller '46
Ed Miller died June 3, 1997, in Hyannis, Mass., after a protracted illness.A native of Elizabeth, N.J., and a great-grandson of Daniel N. Freeland of the Centennial...
David A. Miller '46
DAVE MILLER DIED Oct. 3, 1991, in Forestville, Calif., but the class did not hear of his death until recently. Dave was raised in Wellesley Hills, Mass and he prepared...
Richard A. Mittnacht '46
Dick Mittnacht died Jan. 1, 2007, of pneumonia as a result of lung cancer in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 81. He prepared at Kent, entered Princeton in June 1942, and left...
Stanley S. Moffat '46
Stanley Moffat died Dec. 26, 2006, in Honolulu at the age of 81. Stan was born in Scranton, Pa., and entered Princeton in 1942. He served in the Army Signal Corps as...
Russell M. Moore '46
Russ died Nov. 22, 2006, in Laconia, N.H. He was 84. He was born in Philadelphia but grew up in rural Sunbury, Pa. He followed his father, Milton D. Moore ’19, to...
John Wooten Moore '46
Jack died Oct. 28, 2001, of a heart attack at his home in Creve Coeur, Mo. He joined the class in June 1942, served in the Air Corps from 1943-46, flying B-29 bombers in...
John Wooten Moore '46
Jack died Oct. 28, 2001, of a heart attack at his home in Creve Coeur, Mo. He joined the class in June 1942, served in the Air Corps from 1943-46, flying B-29 bombers in...
Peter C. Moore '46
Peter died Aug. 25, 2000, in Seattle of a stroke. Entering Princeton from St. Louis in 1942, he served in the navy from 1943-46 as an ensign in the Asia-Pacific theater....
Thomas Justin Moore Jr. '46
Justin Moore, known as "Red Dog", died of cancer April 24, 1999, in his native Richmond.At Princeton, he played varsity football and basketball. He then graduated from...
N. Henry Moss '46
HENRY DIED suddenly Feb. 26, 1991.Henry came to us from Philadelphia Central High School, graduated and received his M.D. from U.Penn. in 1948. He became a captain in...
Maurice Muser Jr. '46
Bud Muser died April 11, 2004, at Pawleys Island, S.C., where he lived with Edna, his wife of 58 years.Born in New York City, he grew up in Ridgewood, N.J., graduated...
John Charles Mutch '46
Born in 1924 in Nice, France, John C. Mutch died in Philadelphia Oct. 1, 2003.After preparing at New York's Collegiate School, J. C. joined the class in 1942, served in...
Walter Castle Neale '46
Walter Neale, known as "Terry," died July 31, 2004, in Knoxville, Tenn., where he had lived the past few years.He entered Princeton from Lawrenceville in the summer of...
William Fisher Newbold '46 *48
Bill died Sept. 13, 2001, of emphysema at his Mt. Desert, Maine, home. His winter home was in Sarasota, Fla. Schooled in Philadelphia, Pa., at Episcopal Academy and St....
J. Jay Nichols '46
Jay Nichols died Feb. 9, 2008. Jay came to Princeton from Evanston (Ill.) High School in 1942, but stayed here for only a year. After World War II, he joined the Pure...
Walter Nirenberg '46
WATER NIRENBERG joined us in Feb. 1943. He left us Apr. 30, 1992. The Class of 1946 was very important to Walter. The Prade is still dominated by the blazers that Walter...
James Van Talcott Norden '46
Jim Van Norden died May 19, 1998, in Atlanta, after a stroke.He prepared at the Browning School in NYC and at Princeton studied economics, earning an honors AB in 1948....
Robert G. O'Brien '46
Bob O’Brien died Jan. 22, 2006, in Louisville, Ky. Bob, who also known as “Obie,” entered Princeton in 1942 and joined the Army Air Corps shortly thereafter. He...
F. Donald Oconnor '46
Don "Oke" O'Connor died at his Princeton home Apr. 24, 1998, after great pain and being bed-ridden for almost three years. He prepared at The Peddie School and roomed...
Foster Parmelee Jr. '46
Foster Parmelee died at his home in Featherston, New Zealand, July 18, 1997. Foster grew up in Buffalo and attended Exeter. He took part in the ROTC until the Marines...
Edwin Chandler Paul '46
Captain Edwin C. Paul, USN (CEC) Ret., died Mar. 2, 1998, of pneumonia in San Rafael, Calif.Ted, born in Trenton, N.J., came to Princeton in July 1942 from Exeter. He...
Francis Dana Payne Jr. '46
DANA DIED suddenly at his home on Oct. 5, 1988. Son of Francis Dana '16, grandson of Francis H. 1891, nephew of Calvin N. '22, and brother of Mead...
David W.K. Peacock Jr. '46
Dave died in Washington, D.C., July 30, 2005, of Parkinson's disease. He joined us at Princeton in 1942, served in the Air Corps until 1945 as a second lieutenant, and...
Grant Allen Peacock Jr. '46
Grant Peacock died Feb. 3, 2010, in Redding, Conn. He was 86. Grant was born in Garden City, N.Y., prepped at the Lawrenceville School, and entered Princeton in July...
Carson C. Peck Jr. '46
Carson died Nov. 9, 2006, in Langhorne, Pa. Services were held at Lawrence Road Presbyterian Church in Lawrenceville, N.J. He was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in...
J. Francis Perantoni '46
FRANK DIED Sept. 11, 1991, from complications of leukemia which developed shortly after having two knee replacements in Feb. 1991. Don Good and Tom Ward , former...
Hamilton Darby Perry '46
Darby Perry died from Alzheimer’s disease Dec. 2, 2009, at home in Manhattan. He was 85. He came to Princeton from the Darrow School, and became associate editor of The...
John Trevor Pierce '46
Trevor Peirce died of cancer March 7, 2008, in Wheeling, W. Va. Visual problems kept him out of the military during World War II, although he served in the Merchant...
Thomas F. Plunkett Jr. '46
Thomas Plunkett died July 4, 2009, in his hometown of Pittsfield, Mass. Tom came to Princeton in 1943 from the Darrow School, joined the Army Specialized Training...
T. Alexander Pond '46 *53
Alec Pond died peacefully Aug. 29, 2010, at home in Vermont. He was 85. Born in Los Angeles, he came to Princeton in June 1942 from schools in San Marino,...
Marsom B. Pratt '46
Marsom Pratt died in Boston March 17, 2009, of myelodysplasia, a bone-marrow disorder. He was 85. He was born in Plainfield, N.J., came to Princeton from Kent School,...
Roger Baber Prescott Jr. '46
Roger Prescott died June 3, 1994, of a heart attack at his home in Keeseville, N.Y.Roger prepared at Exeter. During the war, Roger served in the Pacific in the Navy's...
Peter Curran Pulrang '46
Peter Pulrang died Sept. 23, 2008. He lived in Plattsburgh, N.Y., for many years and in Cedar Key and Tallahassee, Fla., after his retirement. Pete arrived at Princeton...
Charles Mcalpin Pyle '46
CHARLIE DIED peacefully at home in Dedham, Mass., Apr. 12, 1993, after a courageous struggle against pulmonary fibrosis. After an early childhood in Morristown, N.J.,...
John Grier Quay '46
John died May 8, 2007, in Wyoming, Ohio. He was 81. He was born in East Orange, N.J., but lived in Egypt, where his father was a missionary, until he was sent to live...
Walter S. Railsback '46
Walter Railsback died Feb. 20, 2008. For many years he had lived in Cohasset, Mass. He left Princeton in the spring of 1943 to join the Army and never returned to the...
John B. Rhodes '46
John, 75, died Nov. 10, 2000, of lung cancer in NYC, where he lived with his wife, Joan.Born in Pittsburgh, "Dusty" joined the class in June 1942 as an engineering...
Ralph R. Riehl Jr. '46
Ralph "Bud" Riehl Jr. died Dec. 25, 2006, after an extended battle with cancer. He was born Oct. 23, 1923, and lived and died in Erie, Pa. Bud came to Princeton from...
Richard K. Rolle '46
Dick died of a stroke at his longtime home in Red Bank, N.J., on Nov. 2, 1997, after a year of battling multiple illnesses.Dick was born in Chicago, lived in Cincinnati,...
Bernd Phelps Rose '46
Bernie died June 3, 1999, at his home in Grand Junction, Colo., after a long battle with cancer.Born in Pittsburgh, son of J. Bernd Rose '15, he attended Sewickley...
Rutger Rosenborg '46
Rut Rosenborg died June 9, 2007, at age 83. He was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and moved to Princeton in 1940 when the League of Nations moved his father, a deputy...
William Kerst Runyeon '46
Bill accidentally drowned in the Delaware River June 7, 2005, while fishing alone.A graduate of The Hill School, he earned a bachelor's from Princeton in 1945, then...
Robert Wirth Sargent '46
The class recently learned that Bob Sargent died June 17, 1994, at his home in Windsor, Vt. Bob prepared at the Peddie School. He joined the Army in July 1943, and...
Ernest Chauncey Savage Jr. '46
Ernest Savage died Oct. 26, 2007, at Crossland Communities, Pa. Ernie prepared at Germantown Friends and the Pomfret School before entering Princeton in 1942. He...
Richard R. Schellenberger '46
Rick died April 27, 2006, at home in York, Pa., where he lived for many years.He taught English at Mercersburg Academy, from which he had graduated before coming to...
Victor Raymond Schmidt Jr. '46
Vic Schmidt died May 27, 1995, in the Lehigh Valley Hospital after a brain tumor operation.Vic came to Princeton from the Taft School and played freshman football and...
Victor Raymond Schmidt '46
Vic Schmidt died May 27, 1995, in the Lehigh Valley Hospital after a brain tumor operation. Vic came to Princeton in Sept. 1942 from Taft School and played freshman...
Dwight Schoeffler '46
Dwight died Aug. 23, 2000, of cardiac arrest in Helsinki, Finland, while on a Baltic cruise with his wife of 49 years, Winafred. Born in Holyoke, Mass., he came to...
Eugene Louis Schou '46
Gene Schou died Apr. 30, 1999, after complications from diabetes, at his home in Washington, D.C. Born in Brooklyn, he graduated from Polytechnic Prep there and entered...
Paul Fortuyn John Schumacher '46
Paul Schumacher died Sept. 21, 1995, in Hillsborough, Calif., where he had lived for many years. Paul came to Princeton from Andover, served in the Army in the OSS, and...
William Leighton Scott Jr. '46
Leighton Scott died Jan. 30, 2011, at his longtime home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, of complications of scoliosis. A graduate of Lorain, Ohio, schools, he majored in...
Edward Scull '46
Edward Scull died July 6, 2008, in St. Augustine, Fla. He was 84. Ed graduated in 1942 from Haverford School, where he was on the swim team, rowed on the varsity crew,...
Horace Y. Seidel III '46
Hotch Seidel died Feb. 27, 2004, at his home in Hollywood, Fla., after a long illness.Born in Pottstown, Pa., he came from The Hill School to Princeton to major in...
Dennis Francis Shanahan '46
DENNY SHANAHAN died Apr. 7, 1991, of I pneumonia, in Hermona Beach, Calif. His wife, Lee, hail died there in June the previous year. Denny grew up in Pittsburg and went...
Charles Van Mater Shedd '46
Charlie died April 14, 2007, after a long illness. He was 82. He entered Princeton from Hotchkiss in 1942 and served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946. After graduating...
Robert H. Shedd '46
Robert Shedd died Oct. 23, 2007, in Punta Gorda, Fla. He was in the V-12 pre-med program at Princeton and entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1944, where he...
Norman Shethar '46
Norman Shethar died March 5, 2008, in Littleton, Mass. He came to Princeton from Rhode Island and graduated magna cum laude and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa in...
Pomeroy Shipman '46
Pomeroy Shipman died in 2007 in New York City. Bud came to Princeton from Lawrenceville in July 1942, majored in politics, and was a member of Whig-Clio and Elm...
George Shiras '46
George Shiras died peacefully June 17, 2011, in Mequon, Wis., from the effects of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 86. A native of New Rochelle, N.Y., George was a star...
William H. Short '46 *52
BILL DIED Feb. 20, 1991, of cancer at Princeton Medical Center. He joined us that memorable summer of 1942 before entering the Army and returned to receive his A.B....
David Macrae Sisson '46
Dave died Dec. 18, 1998, of a heart attack at his home in Princeton. A beautiful memorial service was held in the Chapel on Dec. 23.Born in Auburn, N.Y., he prepared at...
Everard F. Smith '46
Everard Smith died Sept. 3, 2005, after a yearlong illness, in Littleton, Colo.He came to Princeton from South Side High School in Rockville Centre, N.Y. An electrical...
C. Grove Smith '46
Grove died Nov. 3, 2001, of emphysemaat home in Sarasota, Fla. A native of Washington, DC, he graduated from St. Alban's and entered Princeton in 1942 to major in...
Peter Garthwaite Smith '46
The class lost one of its great leaders when Pete Smith died Aug. 16, 1995, at his home in Birmingham after a courageous, eight-year battle with cancer.Pete grew up in...
Alexander B. Smythe '46
Sandy died June 27, 2001, of heart failure after bypass surgery. Son of Frank C. Smythe 1894, Sandy grew up in Philadelphia and came Princeton from Upper Darby H.S....
Walter Newell Snow '46
Walter Snow died Jan. 7, 2004, in Overland Park, Kan.Born in Greenfield, Mass., Walt came to Princeton in 1942 from Hotchkiss. He majored in mechanical engineering, then...
Robert A. Solow '46
DR. ROBERT SOLOW died July 30, 1993, after a valiant battle with cancer. He was born in Newark, N.J., Sept. 11, 1925, and attended Kearny H.S. there. He later went to...
William Reese Spofford Jr. '46
Bill died May 10, 2002, of cancer, at his home in Hilton Head, S.C. A Philadelphian, he came to Princeton in June 1942 from the Episcopal Academy. He entered the Navy...
John Sedgwick Sprague '46
John Sprague died in Buffalo Oct. 24, 2003, after suffering a stroke following a heart attack. Alan Lukens represented the class and spoke at John's memorial...
William Barrington Stockdale '46
Barry Stockdale died June 16, 1995, at the Jersey Shore Medical Center close to Ocean Grove, N.J. Barry attended Princeton from Nov. 1943 until Dec. 1944, during which...
Alexander Travis Stumpf '46
Stumpf was Stumpf. He had no equal, in any sense of the word. Crusty. Fiery. A self-ordained curmudgeon. In the summer of '42, he joined us from Kent School, where...
William Maynard Swan Jr. '46
Bill died June 15, 2004, of pancreatic cancer.Born in Grosse Pointe, Mich., he graduated from Deerfield Academy and began studying engineering at Princeton in 1942....
William H. Sword '46
Bill died June 9, 2005, after a long illness. He was 80. His funeral at Nassau Presbyterian Church included President Shirley Tilghman h'46 and class representatives...
Alexander L. Taggart III '46
Sandy Taggart, a lifelong Indianapolis resident, died Sept. 27, 2003. Grandson of Alexander L. Taggart 1904, who founded the Colonial Baking Co. of which Sandy became...
David Muir Tappen '46
Dave Tappen died Aug. 30, 1997, at his home in Little Compton, R.I. He was 71.A Pomfret School grad, Dave entered Princeton in July 1942. He joined the Navy a year later...
Robert Samuel Taylor '46 *49
Architect and professor of architecture Bob Taylor died Dec. 8, 1999, after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, in Oakmont care center, near his Pittsburgh home.His...
Allen M. Taylor '46
Following Allen’s 1993 retirement as a managing partner in the Milwaukee law firm Foley & Lardner, he became chairman of the Chipstone Foundation, which supports...
Louis Albert Thayer '46
Louis Thayer died Oct. 7, 2008, in his home in Bridgehampton, N.Y., after a long illness. Lou was born in Flushing, N.Y., and came to Princeton from Flushing High...
Mortimer Stafford Thompson '46
Staff Thompson died Jan. 21, 1995, collapsing suddenly of a heart attack while dancing with his beloved wife, Donna. Staff joined the class in 1942, the first...
J Wilding Thompson '46
Jim THOMPSON left US July 17, 1990, succumbing to pancreatic cancer. Jim came to Princeton at age 17 following a year at Hotchkiss. Upon turning 18 in June 1943, he...
Willis Duane Todd '46
Duane died June 1, 2001, of cancer.He entered Princeton in 1942 and graduated in 1948, having served 34 months in the Army, including combat with the 28th Division. A...
Gilbert Post Von Totten '46 *48
Gil died Mar. 8, 2002, of leukemia in East Tennessee, where he lived for 20 years on a horse ranch in a home that he and his wife, Eileen, had built.A Choate School...
H. Lansing Vail Jr. '46
Lans died June 1, 2003, in Shaker Heights, Ohio. A lifelong native of greater Cleveland, he graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1942 and entered Princeton in the...
Van der Veer Varner '46
Van Varner died Jan. 24, 2008, in Alamo, Calif., of complications resulting from a stroke. He was 84. Van was from Louisville, Ky. He entered...
William Edward Wagner Jr. '46
Bill Wagner died Nov. 23, 2007, in Morristown, N.J., after a long illness. He was 82 and a longtime resident of Basking Ridge, N.J. After Princeton he taught at Peddie...
Revett Bradley Wallace '46
Rev Wallace died in his Woodside, Calif., home on Oct. 12, 1995, of a heart attack. Rev grew up in California and attended the Thacher School. Rev joined the Marine...
William W. Wanamaker Jr. '46
William Wanamaker died March 10, 2010, in Alexandria, Va. Bill was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., where his father was serving in the Army Corps of Engineers. He...
Thomas W. Ward '46
Tom Ward died Oct. 13, 1995, in Vero Beach, Fla., after a courageous bout with cancer. Tom entered Princeton in June 1942 after his graduation from Blair Academy. He...
Herbert W. Warden III '46
Herbert Warden died March 28, 2008, in Charleston, S.C., after a brief illness. He was 83. He was born in Philadelphia, attended Le Rosey in Switzerland and St....
Silas L. Warner '46
SI WARNER DIED in San Francisco Nov. 20, 1993. He entered Princeton from Choate in June 1942 arid received his Princeton degree in 1945 after his first year at...
Richard Henry Webster '46
Richard H. Webster died Nov. 24, 2007, in Washington, D.C., following respiratory failure. He was 82. Harry was born in Norfolk, Va., grew up in Providence, R.I., and...
Stanley Shepherd Weiss '46
Stan Weiss died in Denver July 10, 2003.Born in Brooklyn, he graduated from DeWitt Clinton HS, majored in biology at Princeton, and earned his medical degree from...
Roger W. Wescott '46 *48
Roger died Nov. 21, 2000, at home in Southbury, Conn., where he lived in retirement with his wife of 55 years, Hilja. Born in Philadelphia, he came to Princeton from...
William Franklin Whitbeck Jr. '46
Bill died Jan. 11, 2005, in Northern Neck, Va.Born in Irvington, N.J., he was a graduate of Columbia High School and entered the class in 1942 to study humanities. He...
Arthur Bryant Whitcomb '46
A. B. died Mar. 8, 2003, at home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., with his beloved Meg holding his hand.Arriving from Choate, he roomed with Bud Scott, Herman Froeb, Ben Britt,...
Frederick C. White '46
FRED DIED at his home in San Francisco Ma, 24,1990, of complications arising from AIDS.He arrived with us the summer of 1942 as part of the Choate contingent and majored...
Charles Burton Whitehouse '46
CHARLES BURTON WHITEHOUSE, or 'Burt' as he was known to his friends, died Dec. 16, 1991, at his home in North Caldwell, N.J. Burt entered Princeton in 1942 and left for...
James Rennick Williams '46
Jim Williams died on Sept. 20, 2001, at his lifetime hometown of Lockport, N.Y. He joined the class in 1942, majoring in history, and after Marine Corps service in the...
Robert Stith Williams Jr. '46
Bob died Oct. 6, 2009, in Pelham, N.Y. He was 86. Born in New York City, he attended the Hotchkiss School. He entered Princeton in 1942 but left at the end of the...
Richard Thornton Wilson Jr. '46
Thornton died June 5, 1996, at his home, South Wind, in Newport, R.I. He had been troubled by emphysema for several years.He was active in many social clubs in Newport...
James Parker Wilson '46
Jim Wilson died Apr. 23, 1995, in Nashua, N.H., after a long illness. He was born in Blakely, Penn., and attended Scranton Central H.S. Jim remained at Princeton until...
Roger F. Woodman '46
Roger Woodman died Dec. 22, 2000, of cancer in Falmouth, Maine, where he had lived for 50 years with his wife, Katherine. Raised in Concord, N.H., "Woody" entered...
John Weldon York '46
John York died Sept. 5, 2007, following a long illness. He was educated at the Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia, the Buckley School in New York City, and St. George's...
Kenneth H. Zabriskie Jr. '46 *53
Ken died Oct. 18, 2004.He came to Princeton from Ridgewood [N.J.] High School in 1942 to study chemical engineering. After Army service in the Philippines and Japan, he...
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