Current Issue
Dec. 9, 2009
Vol. 110, No. 6
Memorials
Memorials by Class: 1943
Henry G. Allyn Jr. '43
A railroad man for 35 years, Hank died Dec. 10, 2006, at his home in Sewickley Heights, Pa. He was 86. Born in Philadelphia, he prepped at Lawrenceville. At...
James Burns Amberson '43
Burns, who retired 20 years ago from private practice as a psychiatrist in Springfield, Mass., died Nov. 23, 2009, at Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital. He was 89. After...
Andrew Campbell Armstrong '43
Andy died Mar. 24, 1997, from lung disease and a massive stroke. He was 75.A native of Holyoke, Mass., he prepped at Deerfield Academy. After having served the Army...
William Whitley Ashley '43
Bill, who practiced internal medicine for 60 years, first in San Francisco, then in Eureka, Calif., died of cancer Aug. 6, 2006, in Santa Rosa, Calif. A San Francisco...
Robert Harvey Bamman '43
Bob died on July 25, 2001, of prostate cancer. He was 80. A long-time resident of Westport, Conn., Bob grew up in DC and Maryland. Later, he had homes in Vermont and...
Howard Sill Bell Jr. '43 *47
Sam, who made significant contributions to early rocketry and energy-systems design, died Nov. 11, 2009, at his home in Basking Ridge, N.J. He was 89. Sam graduated...
Charles Joseph Beran '43
Charley died Aug. 7, 2003, at Greenwich [Conn.] Hospital. He was 82. Death was due to complications following a stroke.Born in Heiden, Switzerland, he emigrated to the...
Elston Hunt Bergen III '43
ELSTON DIED Mar. 28, 1991, at the Univ. of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Conn. He was 70.Born in Glenridge, NJ., he lived in West Hartford, Conn. before...
Donald V. Bierwert '43
DON DIED Apr. 26, 1993, of cancer, at the age of 73. He was born in Minneapolis, but had lived in Northampton, Mass., for the past 50 years.Don's entire working career...
John Mckibbin Bigelow '43
died in Fontana, Wis., Sept. 30, 2001; he was 79. He prepared for Princeton at St. Paul Academy in St. Paul, Minn. After graduation from Princeton in Jan. 1943,...
Earl Biscoe Jr. '43
An engineer who retired from General Motors Corp. in 1980, Earl died Feb. 24, 2008, in Bloomfield, Conn. He was 87. Born in New York City, Earl graduated from St....
Oliver Miller Blackburn '43
WE LOST Ollie May 24, 1990, from the lingering aftereffects of a 1984 stroke, coupled with severe emphysema. He was 69, and had been very ill and hospitalized for...
Robert Page Boudreau '43
Bob died at his home in Skaneateles, N.Y., Sept. 30, 2003, following a long illness. He was 82.A native of Syracuse, Bob attended Manlius Pebble Hill School and Phillips...
Robert Lee Boughton Jr. '43
Bob, who was in real estate and construction in Southern California for many years before retiring in 1976, died Aug. 31, 2009, after a long illness. He was 88 and had...
William Donald Bowersox '43
DON DIED June 9, 1992, at his home in Talleyville, Del., at the age of 72.Employed by Dupont, Don worked there for more than 35 years, retiring as district sales manager...
Robert W. Boynton '43
Bob died at his home in Lakeville, Conn., on Feb. 3, 2002. He was 80.After receiving his BA in English, he received an MEd from Harvard, and completed his PhD coursework...
Bruce M. Bradway '43
Bruce died Sept. 19, 1999, at Bryn Mawr [Pa.] Hospital of heart complications following surgery. He was 77.A native of Oak Park, Ill., Bruce graduated from Princeton...
Edwin Wagner Bragdon '43
Ed was a man of unlimited interests and boundless energy who succeeded in three distinct careers. He also was class treasurer for 11 years, until medical complications...
Francis L. Broderick '43
THE CLASS LOST Francis Broderick on June 22, 1992, to the ravages of cancer. He was 69.A Manhattan native, Frank prepped for Princeton at Phillips Andover Academy, and...
Gordon Ray Brown '43
Gordon died May 4, 2003, in his Southbury, Conn., home following an extended bout with respiratory problems. He was 81.A native of Buffalo, N.Y., he came to Princeton...
John Anderson Brown '43
John died Nov. 30, 1995, at his home in Wayne, Penn., following a valiant struggle with cancer. He was 74.Born in NYC, John prepped for Princeton at Deerfield Academy....
John M. Bruce Jr. '43
A clinical psychologist and teacher who headed English Department at Boys’ Latin School in Baltimore for 24 years, Marsh died July 28, 2010, of heart failure at...
Andrew Derek Bulkley '43
ANDY DIED Dec. 8, 1993, of complications arising from emphysema. He was 72. A native of Rye, N.Y., he lived and practiced pediatric medicine in Doylestown, Penn., from...
Martin Van E. Buren '43
Ted died March 24, 2005, at Bentley Village Care Center Naples, Fla. He was 84.A native of Rutherford, N.J., he graduated from Princeton 1943 and rose to captain...
Gilbert Burnett Jr. '43
Gil died Sept. 13, 2009, in Newport, R.I. Born in Louisville, Ky., he entered Princeton from Louisville Male High School. Gil majored in biology at Princeton and was...
Stokes Fenimore Burtis Jr. '43
Stokes, who was on the corporate staff of RCA, supporting plant operations throughout the United States for 32 years until his retirement in 1985, died Nov. 27, 2009,...
Douglas Whitfield Calder '43
DOUG DIED Oct. 16, 1991, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, of pneumonia, following a long and brave battle against emphysema. He was 71.Born in Rio de Janeiro, Doug entered...
Theodore S. J. Caldwell '43
Ted died April 15, 2001, of complications following two open-heart surgeries. He was 80.He prepared for Princeton at Phillips Exeter Academy and majored in chemical...
John B. Callaghan '43
John died, following a lengthy illness, at the Benjamin Rose Institute in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, on June 25, 1995. He was 75.Born in Cleveland, he prepped for...
Neil Foster Campbell '43
Neil died of natural causes at his home on Oct. 23, 2000. He was 79.He grew up in Beverley Hills, attended Webb School there, and prepped at Phillips Exeter Academy...
Henry G. Canda Jr. '43
Hank died Jan. 24, 1997. He was 75.A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., his WWII military service was with an Army artillery division. Hank's business career gravitated around C....
John Otis Carney '43
Ote died Jan. 1, 2006, from skin cancer complications. He was 83.The grandson of wealthy industrialist William Carney, Ote spent most of his childhood in Lake Forest,...
John R. Carter '43
John died on Nov. 25, 2000, at the age of 79.A political activist in Albermarle County, Va., for the last 26 years, John left his mark on the community in many ways. A...
Elwood Harrison Carter Jr. '43
We lost El on May 31, 1996, at the age of 74.Born in Rutherford, N.J., El attended Rutherford H.S. and Montclair Academy before matriculating at Princeton. He graduated...
Edward Dexter Chapin '43
Dex died June 11, 2000, of cancer at the age of 80.Prepping at both Calvert and Gilman schools in Baltimore, he graduated from Princeton having been a member of Colonial...
Johnson Clark '43
John died April 27, 2007, in Summit Hospital, Oakland, Calif., of complications from a heart procedure. He was 85. A 55-year resident of Lafayette, Calif., John was a...
Frank Robertson Clarke Jr. '43
Frank died at his home in Oxford, Md., on Aug. 19, 1989, at the age of 69.Born and educated in the public schools of Montclair, N.J., Frank graduated from Exeter and...
Philip Gilett Cole '43
The class lost Phil Mar. 31, 2004; he was 83.Following Princeton and Army service in the Pacific during WWII, he earned a law degree from Harvard Law School.Phil was a...
George Leonard Collins Jr. '43
George died on Aug. 29, 1996. He was 75.An NYC native, he was educated at the Newman School, Princeton, and Yale. During WWII, he served with the Navy and Coast Guard....
Philip G. Connell Jr. '43
PHIL DIED Oct. 9, 1991, at his home in Village of Golf, Fla. He was 71 and had fought a most valiant bout against cancer for almost a year.Born in Chicago, Phil was the...
Robert C. Conner '43
Bob died of cancer June 15, 2005, in Saratoga (N.Y.) Hospital Nursing Home. He was 83.A Pittsburgh native, he graduated from Radnor High School and won a scholarship to...
James Elmo Coqulllette '43
Jim died Jan. 23, 1999, following a long illness. He was 78.A native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he prepared at Pomfret School. Although he entered Princeton with the class,...
William Thomas Couch '43
BILL FALL) Mar. 7, 1992, in Hot Springs, Ark., following a long confrontation with cancer. He was 72.He prepped for Princeton at Lawrenceville School, Subsequently...
J. Harriss Covington '43
Harriss died Apr. 29, 1995, at his home High Point, N.C. He was 74.He prepared for Princeton at Woodberry Forest School Orange, Va. After he graduated, he served...
Samuel Thomas Cummings '43
A clinical child psychologist who dedicated his career to treating children and adolescents with mental-health disorders, Tom died Feb. 1, 2008, of multiple causes in a...
John Spencer Davis '43
Spence died June 15, 2007, at age 85 of complications from a stroke in East Hampton, N.Y., where he lived full-time since 2003. He was an investment banker in Washington...
John Charles Davis III '43
John died Aug. 14, 2003; he was 82.A Denver native born into one of Colorado's pioneer families, he attended Graland School and the Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., before...
James Holland Davis '43
Jim died on Mar. 12, 1997, while vacationing in Boca Grande, Fla. He was 76.A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., he was a graduate of Deerfield Academy before matriculating at...
Paul Constant Debry Jr. '43
Paul died June 7, 1997, at Piedmont [N.C.] Medical Center. He was 75.A native of Tarrytown, N.Y., he prepared at Repton and Rugby in England. During WWII, Paul served...
David Child Dodge '43
Dave, the former owner of a major communications firm in Colorado, died of multiple causes Oct. 15, 2007, in Aurora, Colo. He was 87. Born in Los Angeles, he prepared...
Andrew Connick Jackson Doran '43
Bones died of pneumonia Dec. 30, 2003, shortly after turning 82, in LA. He had suffered a stroke in 2001.A graduate of Columbia HS, South Orange, N.J., he came to...
John W. Douglas '43
was a pillar of the class during our college years. His later career in government and private law in Washington epitomized “Princeton in the nation’s service.”...
John W. Drayton '43
We lost John to Parkinson's disease Sept. 24, 2005. He was 85.He grew up in Chestnut Hill, Pa., prepping for Princeton at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire. A member of...
Dixon Watson Driggs '43
Dixon died June 26, 2003, following an extended illness. He was 82.A Philadelphia native, he prepped for Princeton at the Choate School. While on campus, he was a member...
Wells Drorbaugh Jr. '43
Drobe died Feb. 17, 2002; he was 81. He came to Princeton from Deerfield Academy. Drobe was a member of the varsity heavyweight crew for three years and majored in...
Alexander Edwards '43
SANDY DIED June 22, 1993, in Somerville, N.J., at the age of 71.Born in Greenwich, Conn., he had lived in Flemington, NJ, for the past year and a half. Prior to that...
John Watkins Eiman '43
Jack died July 12, 2002, following a long illness. He was 80.A native of Bala Cynwyd, Pa., he prepped at the Haverford School. After Princeton, Jack received a medical...
John Davis Fairing '43
John died Mar. 2, 2002, in Logan, Utah, at the age of 83.A native of Newark, N.J., John graduated cum laude from Princeton and afterward served in the Army Air Corps in...
Warren Fales '43
FLUNX DIED at his home in Ridgefield, Conn., on July 16, 1992. He was 71 years old.He prepped for Princeton at Kent School, and was an honors graduate of the University....
Francis Bartow Farr '43
Bartow died peacefully, after a long illness, Nov. 21, 2004, in New York City. He was 83.A native of Southampton, N.Y., he attended St. Bernard's School and Kent School....
John Fayerweather '43
John died Feb. 3, 2005, following a long and courageous battle against the ravages of Alzheimer's disease. He was 82.He prepped for Princeton at Kent School, served in...
Joseph C. Fegan Jr. '43
A RETIRED LIEUTENANT GENERAL and decorated veteran of three wars, Joe died Jan. 2, 1991, in the Naval Hospital at Balboa Park, San Diego. He was 70.Joe enlisted in the...
Charles Donald Ford '43
DON DIED May 20, 1990, at the age of 69, following a fourmonth bout with cancer. Born in Atlantic City, N.J., he graduated from the local high school and entered...
Martin Franklin '43
A LONGTIME RESIDENT of Darien, Conn., Marty died suddenly and unexpectedly Feb. 2, 1991, at the age of 70. Death occurred at his East Dorset, Vt. home, where he had...
Roland Mushat Frye '43 *52
Rolo died Jan. 13, 2005, of complications from heart disease. He was 83.A native of Birmingham, Ala., he ultimately earned three degrees, including his doctorate, from...
John R. Gardner '43
John, retired investment banker and trust officer, died June 25, 2008, at his home in Loveland, Colo., after brief battle with bone-marrow cancer. He was 88. Born...
Howard A. Gauvain '43
Howard died Apr. 23, 1995, at his home of natural causes. He was 73.Howie was one of many in the class who interrupted his college career to enlist in the Navy shortly...
Douglas T. Geddes '43
TREY PASSED AWAY Jan. 15, 1993, apparently from a stroke, at the age of 71.A retired builder, he was a native and lifelong resident of Lexington, Ky. A 1939 graduate of...
Matthew Thomas Geis Jr. '43
Matty died on June 2, 2000, from cancer at the age of 81. He died at Royal Palm Convalescent Center, Vero Beach.A NYC native, he prepped for Princeton at Lawrenceville....
William Langley Granbery '43
Red died Mar. 12, 2001, in Cincinnati, days shy of his 81st birthday.He grew up in Nashville, Tenn., and attended Montgomery Bell Academy. Following a prep school year...
Philip Palmer Green Jr. '43
Phil died Aug. 9, 2002, at the Carolina Inn at Fayetteville, N.C. He was 81.He graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law School. He served in the Army during WWII and...
Dickson B. Guile '43
Dick died in Stuart, Fla., Feb. 25, 1997. He was 75.He was born in Rockville Center, N.Y., and resided in Huntington, N.Y., for many years. He prepared for Princeton at...
C. Donald Gutmann '43
We lost Don Feb. 27, 2004; he was 82.He prepared at Kingsley Prep School in Essex Falls, N.J., and transferred to Princeton from Dartmouth. While at Princeton Don was a...
Horace White Harrison '43
The class and the philatelic world lost a heavyweight when Hammer died of pancreatic cancer Oct. 4, 2002. He was 81.A stamp enthusiast from his youth, Hammer prepped for...
Richard B. Harvey '43
Richard died July 27, 2003, in Yale-New Haven Hospital, following a brief illness. He was 81.Born in Princeton, he served in the Navy during WWII. Following graduation...
Joseph Welles Henderson '43
Welles died of prostate cancer May 5, 2007, at home in Haverford, Pa. He was 86. He was a lawyer whose fascination with the sea led to his founding the Independence...
Henry L. Heymann '43
Henry died Feb. 8, 2007, of lung cancer at his home in Washington, D.C. He was 86. Born in Philadelphia, he prepped at Penn Charter School and the Hun School,...
John Axford Higgons '43
Jack died on Aug. 9, 2005, following a valiant six-year battle against prostate cancer. He was 85.A New Hampshire native, Jack grew up in New Rochelle, N.Y. After...
George Knapp Hoblitzelle '43
George died Feb. 8, 2001, of congestive heart failure at the age of 79.He was born in St. Louis, prepped at St. Paul's School, and graduated from Princeton summa cum...
George Anthony Hochschwender '43
George died at his home in Tampa, Fla., June 27, 2003. He was 82.A Brooklyn native, George graduated from Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School in 1939 and...
Robert C. Hoffman '43
Bob died on Nov. 7, 2000. He was 79.Born in Hopewell, N.J., he lived in Princeton and graduated from Princeton H.S. in 1939 and from Princeton with a degree in...
Joseph Ward Hooper Jr. '43
Joe died of a heart attack at his home on Jan. 19, 2002. He was 80.He attended New Hanover HS, the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn., and graduated from Princeton...
Elisha Harris Howard III '43
A prominent Rhode Island banker and civic worker, Mickey died in Providence March 2, 2008. He was 87. Born in East Greenwich, R.I., he was a descendant of two Rhode...
Charles H. Howell Jr. '43
Charles died Feb. 10, 1996, at the Veterans' Medical Center in Lyons, N.J., of a swiftly moving cancer. He was 74.He was born in Philadelphia and raised in Haverford,...
Robert W. Hugins '43
Bob died April 4, 2002; he was 81. Teacher, world traveler, and former Peace Corps member, Bob was a native of Littleton, Colo. He received his diploma from Princeton...
Robert Penniman Hulburd '43
Bob died Aug. 5, 1995, at Blake Hospital in Bradenton, Fla., following a long battle with cancer. He was 74.Bob juggled three careers with outstanding success:...
Lemuel Conner Hutchins '43
Lem died Aug. 14, 2000, at his home in Tyler, Tex., at the age of 77.Lem graduated from the high school in that city, then Princeton, and ultimately, Harvard law school...
Charles B. Hutchinson '43
The class lost Charles Oct. 21, 2004. He was 84.A lifetime resident of Jobstown, N.J., he graduated from Princeton in 1943 and served in the Army during World War...
William L. Hutton '43
Bill died at home March 4, 2005. He was 83.Born and raised in the New York City area, Bill prepped for Princeton at Allen-Stevenson in New York City and at Choate. He...
Scott W. Jeffery '43
We lost Scott on Jan. 10, 1997. He died at his home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., following a long and debilitating illness. He was 75.After his graduation from Princeton,...
R. Stuart Jenkins '43
Stu died at his home in Radnor, Pa., Feb. 18, 1998, following a long illness. He was 76.A Pittsburgh native, he was a graduate of Upper Darby H.S. During WWII, Stu...
Gordon B. Johnson '43
GORDON DIED May 14, 1992, at his home in Sea Ranch, Calif., of lung cancer and a heart attack, following a long illness. He was 71.Gordon was with our Class for only a...
Paul T. Kearney '43
Paul passed away on July 16, 1996, after a long and courageous battle against cancer. He was 75.An alumnus of North H.S. in Worcester, Mass., Paul left Princeton before...
Thomas L. Killough Jr. '43
Tom, our Annual Giving chairman from 2006 to 2009, died May 6, 2010, at Crestwood Manor, near Toms River, N.J., of complications from a fall in November 2009, when he...
Kenneth Parrish Kinney '43
Ken died of cancer Sept. 3, 2008, at his home in Burr Ridge, Ill., just three months after taking office as class treasurer following our 65th reunion, which he...
James B. Klein '43
Jim died May 23, 1996, following a long illness. He was 75.A native of St. Louis, Mo., he moved to Montclair, N.J., where he graduated from Montclair H.S, lettering in...
Alfred J. Lacazette '43
Al died Dec. 11, 2002. He was 82.Born in Havana, Cuba, Al devoted his business career to the petrochemical industry. He retired from Conoco Chemicals in Houston many...
Grover Victor Lassen Jr. '43
GROVER DIED at his home in Sarasota, Fla., May 17, 1992, of colon cancer. He was 71.In 1946, Grover joined Ballard Oil Co., of Hartford, Conn., founded by his father. He...
Edgar Sanders Lewis '43
Sandy died of lymphoma July 24, 2005. He was 83.A Columbus, Ohio, native, he came to Pittsburgh at 14, when his father was named president of Jones & Laughlin Steel Co....
Frank Hawkins Lewis Sr. '43
Knobby died at his home in Bay City, Texas, June 6, 2003; he was 83.A lifelong resident of Bay City and Matagorda County, he prepped at Woodberry Forest School in...
Irwin Albert Lewis '43
BUD DIED Aug. 18,1990, at the Glendale Adventist Medical Center of liposarcoma, a form of cancer. He was 68.A graduate of Great Neck (L.I.) High School, he was a member...
John Kenneth Looloian '43
A senior finance executive who surmounted injuries from a 1991 auto accident that kept him in a wheelchair, Ken died of respiratory failure Nov. 22, 2008, at Overlook...
Bennett Lord '43
Ben died Feb. 22, 2008, in Mystic, Conn., where he lived since his retirement. He was 86. Born in Indianapolis, Ben grew up in Englewood, N.J., and graduated from...
Daniel Macdougald Jr. '43
Dan died on July 21, 2000. He was 79.An Atlanta native, he prepped for Princeton at the Episcopal H.S. in Alexandria, Va. After graduation, he served in the navy until...
Clyde D. Marlatt Jr. '43
We lost Pete June 3, 2000, after a long and debilitating illness. He was 79.A Newark, N.J. native, he graduated from Montclair H.S. Following his graduation from...
J. Howard Marshall Jr. '43
Howdy died Mar. 11. 1997, at the Maine Medical Center in Portland after a long fight against diabetes and Lyme disease. He was 74.Close at hand were his wife of 44...
William A. Martin '43
Bill died Jan. 26, 2002, of a heart attack. was 81. An NYC native, Bill graduated from Princeton in Jan. of 1943 and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy in June....
James Henry Mason IV '43
Jim, a retired surgeon and a past president of the Atlantic County (N.J.) Medical Society, died May 18, 2007, of a ruptured aneurism at the AtlantiCare Regional Medical...
Bryce Maxwell '43 *48
A longtime Princeton professor, Bryce died on Oct. 25, 2001, at Meadow Lakes in Hightstown, N.J. He was 82. A native of Glen Cove, N.Y., he lived in Princeton for 44...
Kneeland Mcnulty '43
KNEELAND DIED May 4,1991, in Albuquerque, N.M., where he had lived since his retirement in 1980, at age 69.Born in Soochow, China, where his missionary parents were...
Robert C. McSpadden '43
ROBERT C. McSPADDEN '43 A nationally recognized tenor soloist who appeared twice at Carnegie Hall, Bob died Jan. 5, 2007, of complications from a stroke at the...
Lindley Garrison Miller '43
Lin died Mar. 16, 2002, following a short illness. He was 81.A native of Glen Cove, N.Y., he graduated and entered the Army Air Corps. Trained as a flight engineer, Lin...
Joshua Lewis Miner III '43
We lost Josh on Jan. 29, 2002, to prostate cancer. He died at his home in Andover, Mass., at the age of 81.A native of Plainfield, N.J., Josh prepped at Phillips Academy...
Clarence Peabody Mitchell '43
Clarence died July 20, 1998, at his home in West Chester, Pa., of congestive heart failure. He was 77.He retired from teaching English at Valley Forge Military Academy...
John H. Montgomery Jr. '43
John died after a short illness on Juy 16, 2002; he was 82.A native of Passaic, N.J., he attended Montclair High School before matriculating at Princeton. In his junior...
Frederick Morgan '43
Fred died Feb. 20, 2004, after a long illness. He was 81.He prepped for Princeton at St. Bernard's School in NYC and St. Paul's in Concord, N.H. At Princeton he was a...
Ralph A. Morriss II '43
We lost Ralph Aug. 1, 2003. He died at age 82 at the Fountains at Boca Ciega Bay, Fla..He came to Florida in 2002 from his native St. Louis. A retired real estate agent,...
Richard Mcgee Morse '43
Dick died Apr. 17, 2001, at his home in Petionville, Haiti, from the effects of Alzheimer's disease. He was 78.A New Jersey native raised in Connecticut, Dick prepped...
Robert Hosmer Morse III '43
BOB DIED Mon., Mar. 15, 1993, at his home in Vancouver. He was 72.Born in Indianapolis, Bob graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy before coming to Princeton. During...
John W. Mowinckel '43
John died May 7, 2003, at his home in West Palm Beach, Fla.; he was 82.Born in Genoa, he grew up in Italy and France. He attended Le Rosey School in Switzerland and St....
Robert H. Muller '43
BOB DIED Apr. 1, 1991, at his home in Montclair, N.J., following a long and courageous fight against cancer. He was 69.A true Princetonian to the end, Bob attended the...
Charles Randolph Myer II '43
Randy Myer died Aug. 30, 1995, following a bout with cancer. He was 74.He prepped for Princeton at Lawrenceville. While on campus, Randy was a member of Cottage Club. He...
Kenneth Baillieu Myer '43
KEN WAS KILLED in an Alaska plane crash on July 30, 1992, at the age of 71.He was with the Class of 1943 only for freshman year, 193940. An Australian, Ken left...
Elie Jan Nadelman '43
Jan, a Foreign Service officer who worked in the State Department from 1946 until his retirement in 1972 and held diplomatic posts in Europe and Africa, died of...
Albert C. Nolte Jr. '43
Al died Aug. 10, 1995, in Port Washington, N.Y. He was 74. At Princeton he was an engineering major and a member of Cannon Club.A patent attorney retired from Nolte,...
Arthur Toby Orr V '43
Toby died April 22, 2003, in Ennis, Mont., at age 82.Following his 1939 graduation from St. Paul's School, he went on to major in political science at the Woodrow Wilson...
Richard Osann '43
Dick died Oct. 17, 1998, in Naples, Fla. He was 77.A native of Riverside, Conn., he commuted to NYC for many years to work in printing, graphic arts, and other allied...
George Quinford Palmer '43
George died Sept. 15, 2000, at the age of 79 following a short illness.A longtime resident of New York, George became a voluntary expatriate when he moved to...
Stewart Trevor Pardee '43
Trev, a retired advertising and public relations executive for whom sailing was a passion, died of a heart condition June 21, 2007, in Newport, R.I. He was 86. A...
James Robert Parham '43
Jake died in St. Louis on Feb. 25, 2000, at the age of 78.While on campus, he took his degree from the Woodrow Wilson School and was a member of Cloister Inn.During WWII...
J. Leonard Pariser '43
Len died Apr. 5, 1997, in Uniontown [Pa.] Hospital. He was 74. He was a native of Pittsburgh. His parents and two brothers, Daniel and Isadore, predeceased him. Len was...
George Parker Jr. '43
George died Nov. 7, 1998, in Dallas. He was 78. Born in Tulsa, Okla., he prepared at Cascia Hall H.S. and Phillips Academy. After Princeton he attended the U. of...
John Grier Parks Jr. '43
John died Feb. 20, 2004; he was 82.A Concord, N.C., native, John prepared at the McCallie School in Chattanooga, and graduated from Princeton with a degree in English....
S. Grey Patterson Jr. '43
Grey died Sept. 21, 2000, of colon cancer at the age of 80.A Media, Pa., native, he graduated from Episcopal Academy in 1939 before attending Princeton. A...
Stephen Pearson '43
Steve died Mar. 30, 1998. He was 78.A Philadelphia native, he attended Chestnut Hill Academy and the Lawrenceville School before matriculating at Princeton. While on...
David Chase Peaslee '43
Dave, our class valedictorian who served many years as a class officer, and who, as a career physicist, championed the cause of teaching science to non-science majors...
Richard Fuller Peck '43
Rick died at his home in Gold Canyon, Ariz., on Feb. 6, 2000. He was 78.He came to Princeton from Walnut Hills H.S., in Cincinnati, and Santa Monica Junior College....
Robert I. Perina '43
BOB DIED Aug. 2, 1991, in Madison, Wisc., at the age of 70. A native of Irvington, NJ., he graduated from Newark Academy in Livingston, from Princeton in 1943, and from...
Charles R. Phillips '43
IT WAS ONLY RECENTLY learned that Chuck died Oct. 18, 1989, in Hartford Hospital. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he lived most of his youth in Waterbury, Conn., and the bulk of...
James Guy Pittenger '43
JIM PASSED AWAY in Detroit May 17, 1991, following a long battle against Parkinson's disease and cancer. He was 69.He prepped at Kiski before entering Princeton, and...
B. Frank Poe Jr. '43
Frank, a copywriter with the New York advertising agency of Needham & Grohman for many years before his retirement in 1972, died Sept. 7, 2009, at Overlook Hospital in...
Thomas H. Pollock '43
Tom died on May 23, 2002, at the age of 81. He died quietly in his sleep, after having suffered from Alzheimer's for several years. He worked for the Navy Department in...
Arthur Francis Pond Jr. '43
ART DIED May 26, 1993, in Manchester, N.H. He had been ill for several years, but his activities were limited only at the end, and he had been planning on joining us for...
Benjamin Du B. Pont '43
Ben died May 24, 1999, in Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, Conn. He was 80.He graduated from Choate School, entered Princeton with our class but transferred to...
C. Chase Porter '43
Chase died Dec. 22, 2006, of complications from Alzheimer's disease at his retirement home in Potomac Falls, Va. He was 84. Born in Los Angeles, he graduated from Los...
Stephen P. Potter '43
Steve died Jan. 30, 2004, of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 81.A native of Manchester, Conn., he received his bachelor's in English from Princeton in...
Borden R. Putnam '43 *44
Borden died Feb. 5, 1996, at his home in Franklin Lakes, N.J. He was 73. His death resulted from Parkinson's disease complications and recent surgery.A native of...
John Bordley Rawls '43 *87
Jack died at home on Nov. 24, 2002, following several years of declining health. He was 81 and held the title of University Professor Emeritus at Harvard.A Baltimore...
L. Marshall Ream Jr. '43
MARSH DIED Jan. 10, 1994, of complications from pneumonia. He was 72. For several years prior to his death, he had been in a nursing home with Alzheimer's. A native of...
William Everard Reed '43
Bill died of cancer May 24, 1996, in his suburban St. Louis home. He was 74.Born and raised in St. Louis, Bill attended John Burroughs School before coming to Princeton....
Lewis C. Reisner '43
WE LOST Dr. Lew on Feb. 9, 1993, following a long illness. He was 71.Lew was a graduate of Lower Merion (Penn.) H.S. and Phillips Exeter Academy in Andover, Mass....
John 1. Reynolds '43
JOHN DIED at home Dec. 16, 1991, after a courageous fiveyear battle against leukemia. He was 68.Graduating from Phillips Exeter, John finished his degree at Princeton...
Charles Madison Riley '43
Mad died March 30, 2004, a victim of complications arising from Alzheimer's disease. was 83.Mad prepared for Princeton at Episcopal Academy in Marion and Devon, Pa....
Sharon Clay Risk '43
SHARON DIED in Manhattan Apr. 17, 1991, of a heart attack, suffered while en route to a planning meeting for our 50th reunion. George Small was with him at the time....
James G. Roberts '43
Jim died unexpectedly Jan. 9, 2004; he was 82. A native of Akron, Ohio, he lived almost all his life in that city.Jim attended Culver Academy and the U. of Akron before...
Walter Douglas Roberts '43
Walter died in St. Mary's Hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla., July 24, 1996, following a long illness. He was 74.A native of Macon, Ga., Walter received a call into the...
Robert B. Rock Jr. '43
BOB DIED Apr. 4, 1992, after a long bout with spinal cancer, at the age of 71.Born in East Orange, NJ., Bob went on active duty with the Navy, in the Pacific, during...
Jules M. Romfh '43
Jules died of pneumonia at his home in Cocoanut Grove, Fla., on Aug. 31, 1997. He was 79.Scion of one of Miami's pioneering families, he was the son of Edward C. Romfh,...
Francis J. Rue Jr. '43
Fran died Feb. 21, 2005, in Fort Myers, Fla., following a brief illness. He was 83.He prepped for Princeton at Penn Charter in Philadelphia and St. Paul's in Concord,...
Norman Felt Shelton Russell Jr. '43
Norm was the consummate volunteer for Princeton as a fundraiser, career services adviser, and reunion worker. He was our most recent class agent. He was special gifts...
William Henry Sayen IV '43
Harry died of a heart attack at his Princeton home on May 10, 1999. He was 77. Harry had just finished the first draft of his Trenton Times column; it appeared in print,...
Louis J. Schneider Jr. '43
Louis Schneider, a former justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, died Dec. 15, 1999, of pneumonia. He was 78.A legal scholar whose writings were praised by judges and...
Charles Scribner Jr. '43
Charley died Nov. 11, 1995, of pneumonia. He was 74. He had suffered from a degenerative neurological disorder for a decade that hindered his ability to read and...
Edward Seckel '43 *48
A professor of aeronautical engineering at Princeton for 25 years before he retired in 1977, Ed died Sept. 28, 2009, at the University Medical Center at Princeton. He...
Richard Seidler '43
The class lost Dick on May 5, 2001, at the age of 80.A native of South Orange, N.J., he lived in Maplewood before moving to Chester some 30 years ago.During WWII, Dick...
Alexander F. Shaw '43
SANDY PASSED away in his sleep June 14, 1990, a victim of cancer. He was 68. Mickey Howard, his Princeton roommate, who had known Sandy for over 60 years, said it all...
John P. Shepherdson '43
John died Mar. 26, 1996, in Hobe Sound, Fla., at the age of 75, following an illness.Born in Worcester, Mass., John attended Northwood School in Lake Placid, N.Y., the...
Levering Bartine Sherman Sr. '43
Bart died July 11, 2005, at Pardee Memorial Hospital in Hendersonville, N.C. He was 84.Born in Wuchang, China, the son of missionary parents, he returned to the United...
Wallace Morton Sinclair '43
Wallace died on Apr. 7, 1989, at the age of 74. He was born in N.Y.C., but his family moved to Bound Brook, N.J., when he was 3. Wallace attended Newton and Shen¬andoah...
William M. Sloane '43
Bill, who was Mr. Everything in the Class of 1943, died of multiple causes Feb. 28, 2007, at Stonebridge, a senior living community in Montgomery Township, N.J. He was...
George Small '43
George died at his home in Baltimore, on Sept. 16, 2002. He was 81.A graduate of the Gilman School in 1939, he served in the Army during WWII. Following military...
Robert Wilson Smiley '43
Bob died Dec. 12, 2004, at his Ross Township [Pa.] home. He was 83.He graduated from Princeton in 1943, and served as a naval aviator during World War II. The University...
Charles Edward Spicer '43
Charlie, who served on a special team to set up and direct the broadcast of Olympic Games for NBC-TV in Seoul in 1988 and Barcelona in 1992, died July 20, 2009, of...
Herbert S. Stevens '43
An Episcopal priest, Herb died May 10, 2010, in Charleston, S.C., where he and his wife, Louise, had lived since last year at the Bishop Gadsden Retirement Community....
A.L. Waldo Stockton '43
Rebel died March 23, 2005, in Atlantic Beach, Fla. He was 83.A Jacksonville, Fla., native, he attended Ortega Public School, the Bolles School, and The Hill School,...
Edward Arthurs Supplee '43
Ed died on Aug. 8, 2002. He was 81.Born and raised in Guilford, Md., Ed graduated from the Gilman School in 1939. At Princeton, he received his degree in Latin.During...
Benjamin Hillyard Sweney '43
A retired insurance executive, Bud died Sept. 30, 2009, in Overland Park, Kan., after a long illness under hospice care. He was 86. Born in Chester, Pa., he graduated...
Leroy E. Talcott Jr. '43
Roy died on Dec. 6, 1999, at the age of 79.He came to Princeton on a full scholarship for academics and baseball-he still holds the all-time record for games won, 45....
James Gardner Tarabell '43 *48
Jim Tarabell, a 45-year Princeton resident before he settled in Pennington, N.J., in 1995, died of lung disease Feb. 1, 2007, at University Medical Center in Princeton....
Warren Eugene Taylor '43
Gene died in his sleep Dec. 30, 2002; he was 81. An Ohio native, he moved east to attend prep school and Princeton. On campus he was a member of Dial Lodge, captained...
John Stewart Taylor '43
STEWART DIED on New Year's Eve in 1993, following a long and debilitating illness. He was 72. Born in Portland, Oreg., and a graduate of Harvard Business School after...
Henry Cushman Turner Jr. '43
Hank had dual careers — first in the medical and pharmaceutical fields for 15 years, and second as a high school science teacher for 24 years. He died Nov. 17, 2007, at...
John Bayard Tweedy '43
Jack died stroke complications on Nov. 5, 1999, at the age 78.Born in Ecuador and raised partially in New Jersey and Texas, he was one the original organizers...
Harold R. Tyler Jr. '43
Ace died May 25, 2005, of an apparent heart attack outside his Manhattan apartment. He was 83.He had an illustrious legal career that was jump-started in 1960 when...
Werter Pullen Vandeusen '43
Jack, as he was better known to all of us, died April 21, 2005. He was 83.A native of Hudson, N.Y., he worked for Eastman Kodak for 42 years in the field of chemistry...
William Whitesides Warner '43
Willy, 88, a retired Foreign Service officer whose book, Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay, won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, died...
John Warren Jr. '43
John died Feb. 14, 1998, following a massive stroke suffered in January. He was 77.A Jersey City native, John lived in Fair Haven and Red Bank before a move to West Long...
Herbert Galbraith Wellington Jr. '43
Herb died Aug. 15, 2005, in Locust Valley, N.Y. He was 85.A native of Rye, N.Y., he attended St. Mark's School in Southbury, Mass. After graduating from Princeton in...
Andrew Fleming West II '43
Andy died Feb. 2, 2005, of congestive heart failure in Desert Regional Hospital, Palm Springs, Calif. He was 83. He prepped at Riverdale Country School in New York,...
Martin R. West Jr. '43
Martin died Jan. 5, 1998, of cancer, at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 77.A native of Washington, D.C., he prepared at Episcopal H.S. in Alexandria, Va. During...
Eugene Satterlee Wetmore '43
Gene died of cancer on Nov. 9, 1999, in his Vero Beach home. He was 78.Gene was a graduate of the Adirondack School. As an undergraduate at Princeton, he was a member of...
Lionel Wiggam '43
Lionel died in Ocean Grove, N.J., Aug. 16, 2005. He was 88.Information about Lionel is sparse at best. We do know that he was considered the Class of 1943 poet. He...
John Albert Williams '43
WE LOST JOHN, a distinguished physician and openheart surgery pioneer, to the ravages of cancer Sept. 11, 1990. He was 68. just five months earlier, Jane, his wife of 45...
Rodman Wilson '43
We lost Rod Dec. 10, 2003, to a malignant brain tumor. He was 82.He earned an English degree from Princeton and a medical degree from Johns Hopkins, and served two years...
Royal Coleman Zuckerman '43
Roy died July 19, 2005, of pulmonary failure. He was 83.He prepped for Princeton at Exeter. Following discharge from the armed forces in World War II, he attended the...
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