Current Issue
Jan. 19, 2011
Vol. 111, No. 6
Memorials
Memorials by Name: J
Raymond M. Jabara '38
Ray died on April 4, 2004, in Tucson, Ariz.Born in Brooklyn, he prepared at the Lawrenceville School. At Princeton he earned a degree in economics. He then attended...
Albert H. Jackman '31
Albert H. Jackman died of cancer Jan. 3, 1997, in Concord, Mass. He was 88. Concord flew its flag at half mast in his honor. So do his classmates!At Princeton, Al joined...
Billy Charles Jackson '73
Billy died on Oct. 20, 2001. The oldest son of William and Beanna Jackson and one of seven children, Billy was born Dec. 3, 1950, in Dallas. He attended Franklin D....
David B. Jackson '41
Dave died June 11, 2004.He prepared at the Gunnery School, where he was an avid baseball and ice-hockey player, as well as a music lover. The son of Dr. Arthur H....
Frank R. Jackson Jr. '31
Born Oct. 10, 1908, "Horse" Jackson lived in Napa, Calif., for 30 odd years before finally moving to Port Jefferson, N.Y., where on Feb. 5, 2000, he died.He prepared at...
Hugh W. Jackson '27
HUGH JACKSON died Jan. 28, 1992. He is an example ofa man who had a successful business career and enjoyed other phases of life which to a biographer, seem as much more...
Norris D. Jackson '17
NORRIS JACKSON died Sept. 29, 1990, in a hospital in St. Paul, Minn., a few days after failing and injuring a vertebra and his neck. He was born in St. Paul June 23,...
Ralph Borden Jackson '39
Jack died Mar. 15, 1998, at his home in Godfrey, Ill., after a brief illness. From 1952 until his retirement in 1971 when his school closed, Jack served as president of...
Robert Kinsley Jackson '41
We lost Bob July 20, 2009. He prepared for Princeton at Whitman (Mass.) High School, followed by a postgraduate year at Exeter. At college he majored in biology and...
Robert W. Jackson '37
CHEMICAL ENGINEER Bob Jackson died July 14, 1992, of cancer. He is survived by his widow, Janina; sons Robert and Thomas; daughter Kathy; and brother Ted, also '37. Bob...
Thomas Francis Jackson '33
Tom died in Bridgewater, N.J., Feb. 21, 2003. He was 90. He graduated from Princeton with a degree in chemical engineering and shortly thereafter joined the Food...
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,...
Richard Felder Jacob '60
Dick died Sept. 26, 2005, from complications of stroke. He spent his childhood in Montgomery, Ala., where he attended Sidney Lanier High School. At Princeton he...
Bradford Mcelderry Jacobs '42
Brad died Apr. 5, 1997, of complications from lung surgery at John Hopkins Hospital. He retired in 1979 after a distinguished 44-year career in journalism with the...
Francis Jacobs '37
Having just attended our 60th reunion in a wheelchair, accompanied by dear friend Natalie Keenan, eminent gymnast and pediatrician Fran "Jake" Jacobs died June 2, 1997,...
Theodore J. Jacobs '55
Ted Jacobs died Aug. 7, 1998, of a neuromuscular degenerative ailment at the Fairland Adventist Center in Silver Spring, Md. Ted is survived by his wife of 29 years,...
Arthur Jacobsen '49
Art Jacobsen died Sept. 2, 1998, in Vero Beach, Fla., following a prolonged illness.Art prepared at Port Richmond H.S. in Staten Island, N.Y. He was a tech sergeant in...
Richard M. Jacobson '64
Rick (also known as “Jake”) died peacefully April 7, 2010, at his home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, after a two-year battle with ampulla of Vater cancer. Rick...
Richard Woodruff Jacobus '40
Dick died Mar. 10, 2003, at the Mobile Infirmary in Alabama. The Newark Star-Ledger obituary identified him as a Princeton graduate of '41, but in all of the past...
William Burr Jadden '39
Bill succumbed to lung cancer Feb. 7, 1999, in Switzerland, where he and Audrey had lived since 1962. There in their beautiful home overlooking Lake Geneva they were...
Theodore Ridgway Jaeckel '38
Ted died May 22, 2002, at the Princeton Medical Center. He was born in Stettin, Germany, in 1915, the son of Foreign Service officer Theodore Jaeckel and Violet Ridgway....
Sydney Jaffe '79
Neurologist and avid cyclist Sydney Jaffe died Sept. 30, 2004, following a bicycle accident on her way to work at Yuma (Ariz.) Regional Medical Center. She was 47....
Charles L. Jaffin '48
Charlie Jaffin was a stalwart of our class. He was always there for us, no matter the issue or circumstances. His lawyerly skills kept us out of trouble, and he led us...
Carroll S. James Jr. '58
It is with deep sadness that we report the death of Carroll S. James Jr., Mar. 24, 1997, after a long and courageous battle with cancer.Carroll entered Princeton from...
John Alexander James Jr. '39
On Jan. 23, 2002, Jesse died from complications of Parkinson's disease. He lived in San Antonio, where he was born and where he returned when he retired in 1979 after...
Nelson Pierce James '39
Nels died Nov. 5, 2000, in Kirkwood, N.Y. For many years he had been the owner of his own travel bureau serving the area in and around Binghamton, N.Y. And in his...
Ralph E. James Jr. '44
Buck died July 25, 2008, in Lippstadt, Germany, where he had interests, along with his longtime residence and contacts in London. Born in Caldwell, N.J., he prepped at...
Theodore James Jr. '57
Ted died Oct. 7, 2006, of heart failure. At Princeton he majored in art and archaeology, which became lifelong pursuits. He roomed with Hap Werth and was active in the...
W.W. Keen James '51
Keen was born May 2, 1929, in Doylestown, Pa., and died of respiratory failure Sept. 16, 2005, in Albion, R.I. He was the son of Wynne James Jr. '24 and the...
Wyatt E.F. James *68
Wyatt E.F. James *68, a computer programmer and inventor of imaginary places, died of cancer Jan. 12, 2006, in New York. He was 62.Born in Harrisburg, Pa. James grew up...
William Herbert Jamieson '49
Bill died July 31, 2002, of lung cancer at home in Wilmington, Del. He was 74.He prepared for Princeton at Tower Hill School. At Princeton he majored in chemical...
Joseph Latta Jamison '42
Following a long illness, Joe died Sept. 17, 2001, in Greensburg, Pa., his lifelong home. Everyone who knew Joe will remember his warm and engaging smile. A superb...
William Wible Jamison II '44
Jamie lived all of his life in Greensburg, Pa., and died at home on Dec. 15, 1999, after a long bout with bone cancer.He prepared at The Hill, where he was active in...
Henry Jandl *37
Henry Jandl, renowned architect and professor emeritus of architecture at Princeton, died in Richmond, Va., Jan. 3, 2004, after a fall in his home. He was 93.A member of...
William Walser Janeway '39
Wals died Feb. 8, 2011, in Guilford, Conn., after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He had just celebrated his 94th birthday. Wals entered Princeton from...
W. Peter Janicki *61
Peter Janicki, a retired social-science research analyst with the U.S. Information Agency, died May 19, 2009, of Alzheimer’s disease at home. He was 80. Born in Poland,...
Frank Fay Janney '61
Frank Janney died of cancer May 31, 2006, at his home Vershire, Vt. Born Morristown, N.J., Frank came to Princeton from Lawrenceville. At Princeton he majored...
Robert H. Janover '52
Bob, whose life was defined by family, duty, the law, and Princeton, died Jan. 6, 2005, following a brief illness.A New Yorker to the bone, he prepared for Princeton at...
Marius Berthus Jansen '44
Marius died Dec. 10, 2000. He was born in the Netherlands, coming to Princeton from Wrentham [Massachusetts] H.S. He majored in history at Princeton, graduating in 1943...
Gordon A. Japp '35
GORDON DIED May 21, 1991. He had been survived by his widow, Marguritte, but unfortunately she passed away only for months after his demise.Gordon was a native of...
Edwin Seton Jarrett Jr. '29
TED DIED Oct. 7, 1991. prepared for college at Storm King Deep Springs School. At Princeton he played freshman baseball and was president of the philosophical club....
Lawrence Jasper '60
Larry Jasper died peacefully at home in Clayton, Mo., Nov. 27, 2006, after a yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer. Born in Elizabeth, N.J., Larry attended the Pingry...
William N. Jayme '47
Bill died on May 18, 2001, at his home in Sonoma, Calif., of emphysema. He was 75.He came to Princeton from Peabody School in Pittsburgh, Pa. He spent WWII in Texas,...
John Gustav Jebsen '51
John was a Norwegian citizen who was born in Paris May 19, 1929. When he was 12 his family came to the United States. He attended Phillips Exeter and matriculated at...
Eric Scott Jefferson *93
ERIC JEFFERSON, a graduate student in the doctoral program in molecular biology at Princeton, died Oct. 23, 1993. Born Feb. 6, 1970 in Fredericksburg, Va., Eric...
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,...
Dwayne Harry Jelinek '64
Dwayne Jelinek died in the early hours of July 25, 2007, after a brave battle with ALS. Born in Crete, Neb., Dwayne graduated from Omaha Benson High School, where he...
Freeman N. Jelks Jr. '51
Freeman was born Oct. 12, 1929, in Savannah, Ga. He came to us from The Hill School. At Princeton, he was an economics major, personnel director of The Daily...
William Dearing Jemison IV '97
Bill died on Oct. 10, 2001, in Memphis after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 26.Born in Dallas, Bill was raised in Florida and Louisiana. At Princeton, he was an...
David S. Jenkins '62
Dave Jenkins died Oct. 21, 2010, in Sandpoint, Idaho, of rheumatic arthritis. Dave came to us from Scranton (Pa.) Central High School and Andover. At Princeton he...
Farish A. Jenkins Jr. '61
We lost Farish Nov. 11, 2012, to complications following surgery for pancreatic cancer while also being treated for multiple myeloma. Born Manhattan and raised...
George P. Jenkins '36
In our Nassau Herald George identified himself as an economics major. He did not mention that he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In our 50-year book he used “usual” to...
Michael Ernest Jenkins Jr. '41
Ern died April 10, 2009, of pulmonary edema at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. A native of Maryland, he graduated in 1937 from the Canterbury School in New Milford,...
Paul R. Jenkins '54
Paul Jenkins died May 16, 2012, in the presence of his wife and sons. Born in Pittsburgh, he attended Shady Side Academy. At Princeton, he majored in history and was...
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...
Richard H. Jenkins '57
Dick died April 1, 2012, at home in Beachwood, N.J. He did not graduate and was with our class only part of the four years. He did not keep in touch with Princeton....
Barton Loag Jenks Jr. *50
Barton Loag Jenks Jr., professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State U., died Nov. 6, 1995, in State College, Pa. He was 72.A 1945 graduate from Swarthmore College,...
Randolph Jenks '36
“Pat” Jenks died Feb. 18, 2011. Born in Morristown, N.J., he lived in the West from the age of 15 and came to Princeton from Morristown School, Mesa Ranch School in...
Thomas Story Jenks '28
TOM JENKS died Dec. 2, 1991, at the Stone Gates Nursing Home in Greenville, Del. He was born in New York, and grew up in Chestnut Hill, Penn, His home had been in Chadds...
John King Jenney '25
John died Sept. 3, 2005, just two days shy of his 101st birthday, in Kennett Square, Pa.Reportedly a Phi Beta Kappa, John prepared for Princeton at Kent School. At...
Marshall West Jenney '63
Marshall Jenney, several times honored as Pennsylvania's leading breeder of thoroughbred racehorses, died Nov. 26, 2000, at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, of...
Gordon Jennings '60
Gordon Jennings of Midland, Va., died May 23, 1998, following a five-year struggle with leukemia.He graduated from the Wilmington Friends School and the Taft School,...
Harold Anderson Jerry Jr. '41
Jerry died June 9. Coming from Plattsburgh [N.Y]. H.S., he majored in politics at Princeton, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with high honors. He joined Cloister Inn and...
Philip Jerry '95
Philip Jerry died Aug. 2, 1996, a victim of AIDS. Philip was first accepted at Princeton in 1972 but deferred to pursue a dance career in NYC. He matriculated in 1991...
Benn W. Jesser '36 *41
Benn died July 13, 2011, in Boston, Mass., surrounded by his family. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Benn came to Princeton from Hackensack, N.J. At the University, Benn was...
Richard Stotesbury Jessup '29
DICK DIED Nov. 25, 1990, at Meadow Lakes, the retirement home at Hightstown, near Princeton, where he had been living since 1983. Dick prepared at Ridgewood School in...
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...
John Llewellyn Jirgal '49
John Jirgal died Apr. 21, 1998, of leukemia, at home in Pearl River, N.Y., where he had lived for more than 40 years.John prepared at New Trier H.S., where he was active...
Gustave Norman Johansen Jr. '61
Our Classmate Gus Johansen died on Feb. 11, 1989, in Arlington, Va., of cardiac arrest. He had suffered a cere¬bral hemorrhage in the previous week. Gus was with us at...
James John '55 *57
James John died Nov. 28, 2010, at his home in Medina, Ohio. He was 77. Born Nov. 6, 1933, in Montreal to Richard and Gwendolyn John, Jim graduated from New Rochelle...
Peter St. John '64
Sadly and belatedly, we report the death of Peter St. John in South Londonderry, Vt., Sept. 9, 1996. Peter appeared to be in excellent health, having completed a...
Benjamin M. Johns Jr. '49
Ben died unexpectedly Aug. 29, 2005. He was 78.He was a graduate of DuPont High School in Wilmington, Del., and attended Andover. Ben spent most of a semester with us...
Willard L. Johns '38
Willard L. Johns died June 6, 2009, in Hockessin, Del. Bill prepared for Princeton at Wyoming Seminary and Andover, where he was on the swimming and track teams and...
William H. Johns '63
Bill died peacefully May 19, 2008, at home in Topeka, Kan., in the company of family and friends. During a lengthy and devoted career in medicine, from which he retired...
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...
Allan C. Johnson *37
Educated as an architect, demonstrated to be a respected multiaptituder, Allan Johnson died June 19, 1998, in an auto accident near his home in San Luis Obispo, Calif....
Darryl L. Johnson '69
We record with great sadness the Aug. 13, 2009, death of Darryl Johnson in Orlando, Fla. A native of Kansas City, Kan., he grew up in Kansas City, Mo. Darryl majored...
Donald Dodge Johnson '33
Don Johnson died in Wilmington, Del., Apr. 21, 2001. He was 91. He was formerly of Alapocas and Upper Montclair, N.J.Don was always an energetic, vigorous, active doer....
Edmund G. Johnson *53
Edmund Johnson, a retired senior vice president of the Haley & Aldrich engineering firm of Cambridge, Mass., died Jan. 3, 2013, at the age of 83. Johnson graduated...
Edward Carl Johnson '60
Ed died May 11, 2004, in Sarasota, Fla., after a brief illness.Ed graduated from Jackson [Mich.] High School, where he was state champion in debate and extemporaneous...
Edward Hume Dudley Johnson '34
Dudley Johnson, who taught English at Princeton for 34 years and retired in 1978 as the Holmes Professor Emeritus of Belles Lettres, died Dec. 9, 1995, of cancer.By his...
Foster Lincoln Johnson '44
Foster Lincoln Johnson died Jan. 28, 1996, at his home in Greenwich, Conn., of complications from prostate cancer with which he had suffered over an extended period....
Frank Harris Johnson '30 *36
FRANK JOHNSON died in Princeton Sept. 22, 1990, of complications following a stroke. At the time of his death he was prof. emeritus of biology at Princeton. Frank was...
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...
George Howard Johnson Jr. '39
George died Oct. 12, 2008, at home in Gladwyne, Pa. A member of Quadrangle at Princeton, he was captain of our freshman and varsity soccer teams, which won two Middle...
George Milton Johnson '56
Milt died Oct. 15, 2005, in San Antonio, where he was a lifelong resident.At Thomas Jefferson High School, his primary interests were football, track, and student...
Gerald Charles Johnson '42
WORD HAS BEEN RECEIVED that Jerry died May 22, 1983, in Burlingame, Calif. His whereabouts had been unknown since the early 1980s. At the time of his death, from...
Gilbert P. Johnson '60
Gil died Aug. 27, 2002, from an apparent heart attack. He was playing golf at the time.Born in Wilmington, N.C., he grew up in Lumberton, N.C., where he attended school...
Glenn Laporte Johnson '54
GLENN JOHNSON died Sept. 5, 1992. Glenn came to Princeton after attending Richard J. Reynolds H.S. in WinstonSalem, N.C. At Princeton, he majored in English. He was a...
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...
Hallock Sherrard Johnson '27
HAL DIED Aug. 23, 1991, at Lima, Penn. His has been a devoted Princetonian family, including John E. Johnson 1884, Walter L. Johnson 1896, Hal's brother R. Park Johnson...
Henry Evans Clay Johnson '36
Clay died Apr. 24, 2001, at his Lookout Mountain, Tenn., home. He was 89. A graduate of the Hotchkiss School, at Princeton he was a member of Cap and Gown. He left...
Henry Evans Clay Johnson '36
Clay died Apr. 24, 2001, at his Lookout Mountain, Tenn., home. He was 89. A graduate of Hotchkiss, he joined Cap and Gown. He left Princeton after his sophomore...
Hervey Sinclair Johnson '64
HERVEY'S HEART gave out on Mar. 19, 1992, at Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, where he was awaiting a transplant.Raised in Lumberton, N.C., Hervey came to Princeton...
Howard Walter Johnson '36
Howard died Mar. 17, 1997, at the Stamford [Conn.] Hospital. He was 82. A graduate of Worcester Academy, he majored in economics at Princeton, and was a member of Dial...
Hugh George Johnson '41
Hugh Johnson died July 5, 1998, in Vero Beach, Fla., after a brief illness.Born in Brooklyn, he moved to Vero from Cold Spring Harbor in 1993. At college he majored in...
James Lee Johnson Jr. '55
Jim Johnson died Oct. 2, 1996, of heart failure in St. Louis, where he was born and reared. He came to Princeton from the Taft School in Connecticut. At Princeton, Jim...
James Vandegrift Johnson Jr. '49
A five-year search for the source of recurrent skin tumors finally found total metastasis, too late to save Jim. He had time to wind up his affairs, bravely, meticulous...
Jeremy Warren Johnson '55
Jerry died Feb. 24, 2007, in Washington, N.C., after a brief illness. Born in Galesburg, Ill., he was the only child of Phillip and Ruth Johnson. He attended St....
Joel Benjamin Johnson '32
Joel Benjamin Johnson of Newfane, Vt., died peacefully July 8, 2007, in Townshend, Vt. He was 97. Born in Kuling, China, Joel grew up with his missionary parents,...
John Alfred Johnson '48
John Johnson died Nov. 22, 1996. He joined us from Choate, was a member of Court Club, and graduated in economics in June 1948. He served in the Navy from 1944-46.John's...
John Berlin Johnson '29
Johnny died Apr. 30, 1995. He prepared for college at Bordentown Military Institute and Montclair Academy. After two years with Loft Candy, Johnny's entire business...
John Brayton Johnson '39
After months of struggle to recover from abdominal surgery, Johnny died at his home in Watertown, N.Y., on May 2, 2001. He had been chairman of the Johnson Newspaper...
Malcolm Johnson '34
Mal Johnson, of Bronxville, N.Y., a retired lawyer, former class vice president, and organizer and host for several years of our class luncheons at the...
Manuel Gillet Johnson '41
Manny died Mar. 23, 2000, of a massive stroke.A graduate of Deerfield Academy, he majored in biology at Princeton. He was vice president of Colonial Club, and his...
N. Pike Johnson Jr. '59
Born in Olean, N.Y., “on a snowy Christmas Day in 1937,” Pike left us in midsummer, July 9, 2011. Pike attended Olean High School before coming to Princeton. Once...
R. Craig Johnson '66
Craig Johnson died June 18, 2012. Craig graduated from Conard High School in West Hartford, Conn., where he was a class officer and member of the honor society, ...
R. Park Johnson '28 *41
Dr. R. Park Johnson, secretary of the Class of '28 for the past 23 years, died June 14, 1998. During that time he filed 17 columns in the paw every year, served on the...
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...
Richard Allen Johnson '59
WE LOST DICK JOHNSON to melanoma D", 22, 1990. He died in Cumberland, Md., where he was born and raised, and where he spent most of his professional career as an...
Richard C. Johnson '75
Rik died Apr. 8, 2002. Having grown up in Pleasanton, Calif., he prepared for Princeton at Robert Louis Stevenson School.While at Princeton, Rik majored in politics, was...
Richard F. Johnson '58
Richard died in San Francisco June 19, 1992 from complications from AIDS.He prepared at Hamden H.S., where he was an active member of student government and the swimming...
Robertson Lee Johnson '53
Lee, whose forebears were timber titans, built his eminent reputation on public service in his native Portland, Ore., as a state representative, attorney general, and...
Roger A. Johnson '54
Roger Allen Johnson died April 8, 2009, at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick from complications of a fractured hip. His family was at his bedside. Roger...
Sidney B. Johnson '37
Lifelong resident of Monmouth Beach, N.J., and described in the local newspaper as "perhaps the best-known political figure in borough history," Sid Johnson died Mar....
Theodore Whelden Johnson '60
Ted Johnson died Dec. 28, 1997. He was 59. He was at home in Manchester, N.H., where he had moved after a very active international business career working with Caltex...
Thomas Daniel Johnson Jr. '40
Tom died on Jan. 26, 2000, in Sanibel, Fla. He prepared at Exeter and majored in chemistry at Princeton, where his activities included the choir and Glee Club. He was a...
Todd T. Johnson '52
A mining engineer with his own monument company in Brevard, N.C., Todd came to Princeton after Culver Military Academy. He roomed freshman year with Mike Bagwell, ...
Wallace B. Johnson '44
Wally died Sept. 11, 2011, in Glen Mills, Pa. Coming from Exeter, he majored in chemical engineering, was on the track team, and joined Cap and Gown. He first roomed...
Walter Harold Johnson Jr. '48
Walt Johnson died Jan. 2, 2010, at home in hospice care. He had been in failing health for some time. Walt had four terms in V-12 at Drew University prior to joining us...
William B. Johnson '31
William Buswell or "Boatbas" Johnson was born in Kuling, Kiangsi, China, on Aug. 31, 1908, and died on Feb. 20, 1999, in Santa Cruz, Calif. He also lived in Nanchang and...
William Benedict Johnson '37
CHEMICAL ENGINEER, inventor, world traveler Ben Johnson died in England Feb. 3, 1991, of leukemia.Ben came to us from Hotchkiss, where he featured football, glee club,...
William Cumming Johnson Jr. '25
Bill Johnson was born June 26, 1904 in Memphis, and attended University School there. A lifelong Quaker, he died in Oberlin, Ohio, May 10, 1995.At Princeton, he earned a...
William L. Johnson '50
Bill died Feb. 12, 2010, in Easton, Md. He graduated from Horace Mann School in New York City. At Princeton he swam varsity, managed The Daily Princetonian office, and...
William Mindred Johnson II '45
Bill died Dec. 7, 1998. He was a resident of Albuquerque. Bill entered Princeton from Hotchkiss, son of George W. Johnson 1898. Bill served as an officer in the 15th Air...
Willis W. Johnson Jr. '35
WILLIS JOHNSON, of Little Rock, Ark., died Mar. 20, 1993. He was with the Class of 1935 only as a freshman and earned a degree in economics from the Univ. of Virginia....
Woodruff Barnes Johnson '39
Woody died Feb. 18, 1995, in Washington, Penn. where he had lived all his life. He came to Princeton with from the Hill School, majored in engineering, then went to work...
Caldwell Sidney Johnston '27
CALDWELL SIDNEY JOHNSTON died June 30, 1990, in Phoenix. The first word of his death or of his career after graduation was received only recently. Born in New Haven, he...
David H. Johnston '61
David died at 61 of cancer on July 6, 2000. He entered Princeton from the Ambler [Pa.] Joint School and received an AB in economics. He later earned an EdM in counseling...
Gale F. Johnston Jr. '49
Buck died Oct. 29, 2004, of complications from Alzheimer's disease. He was 77.He prepared at Webb School in St. Louis. At Princeton he majored in history and was a...
Harry M.K. Johnston '58
Harry Johnston died of cancer Oct. 3, 2009, at his home in Blue Bell, Pa. He was born in Hazelton, Pa., and came to Princeton from The Hill School. At Princeton Harry...
John Martin Johnston '45
Jack Johnston died Sept. 25, 2003.Jack prepared at Poly Prep and joined Cannon Club at Princeton. His studies were interrupted by distinguished and courageous service in...
Joseph F. Johnston '27
Joe died of pneumonia Nov. 17, 2003. Born in Birmingham, Ala., he came to Princeton from St. Alban's in DC and Episcopal HS in Alexandria, Va. He was a member of...
Robert C. Johnston '35
Bob died Dec. 4, 1998, at his home in Millbrook, N.Y. He was 85. He prepared at the Princeton Preparatory School and at Evander Childs H.S. in the Bronx, N.Y. At...
Terry A. Johnston '61
We lost Terry April 26, 2007, after a long battle with leukemia. He had lived in Margate, N.J., since 1972. Born in Plainfield, he came to Princeton from...
William Gordon Johnston '39
After a brief illness, Pee Wee died Dec. 13, 2002, at his winter home in Delray Beach, Fla. After graduation, Pee Wee had a brief stint with NBC, but with the advent of...
William Louis Johnston '30
BILL DIED July 21, 1990, at the Heritage Convalescent Center in Atlanta, Ga., after an extended illness.Bill prepared at Columbus Academy, Oh. At Princeton he played...
John F. Joline III '47
“Moose” Joline enjoyed a distinguished career secondary-school education. He also was a great president of our class from 1982 to 1987. After World War II service...
Laurence Turnbull Joline '51
Born Feb. 18, 1929, the son of John F. Joline Jr. 1907, Larry prepared at Episcopal Academy and Darrow School. He matriculated with the Class of ’51, and we knew him as...
Alfred Clifford Jones '42
Cliff died of cancer of the mouth Oct. 9, 1996, in his native St. Louis. He had enjoyed a long and distinguished career in state politics, serving as a member of the...
Andrew B. Jones '44
Andy Jones died peacefully May 9, 2012, in Haddam, Conn., surrounded by his family. Andy prepared at St. Paul’s. At Princeton he roomed with Aubs Huston, Ferdy...
Andrieus A. Jones Jr. '31
PETE DIED MAY 22, 1993, in Hillsborough, Calif. I He prepared at Lawrenceville School. While at Princeton, he was member of the j.v. crew (third boat), Triangle Club,...
Arthur Carroll Jones Jr. '45
ARTHUR CARROLL JONES JR. died May 23, 1990. A progressive spinal stenosis was ultimately unresponsive to surgery. Casey entered Princeton from the Friends School in...
Arthur Henry Jones '34
ART JONES, a Vermont State senator and member of the boards of the Univ. of Vermont, Vermont Educational TV, and the Vermont Lung Assn., died Sept. 26, 1992, at his home...
Benjamin Charles Jones Jr. '53
Ben Jones was proud of his central Pennsylvania heritage. When he died of cancer, Apr. 11, 1995, he had spent his life in the familiar surroundings and comfort of the...
Breckinridge Jones Jr. '44
Breck died Jan. 7, 2012, at home in Medford, N.J. Coming from Episcopal High School, where he played football and basketball, Breck majored in English at Princeton,...
Brooks M. Jones '40
Brooks died from a massive brain hemorrhage Feb. 17, 2006.He prepared at University School and the Hill School. At Princeton, he majored in English, was a member of the...
Charles Frederick Jones '38
Chuck died June 16, 2003, in Bernard, Maine, the town to which he and his wife, Susannah, had retired.At Princeton he majored in history, was a captain of the university...
Charles Luther Jones '42
Chuck died Feb. 12, 1999, in Greenwich, Conn., after a long illness. He retired in 1986 after an outstanding career in the practice of law.Coming to Princeton from...
David Wickham Jones '60
David died after a short illness Nov. 8, 2008, in Bethesda, Md. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Shaker Heights High School. At Princeton, he...
Donald J. Jones '50
Donald died of cancer in Boca Raton, Fla., Feb. 5, 2004.Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., he came to Princeton with a large contingent from Mercersburg Academy. At Mercersburg,...
Edward Sprague Jones '50
Ed Jones died Dec. 4, 1996, in New York, N.Y., of throat cancer. He was 68. He was a resident of Oyster Bay, N.Y., where he had lived most of his life.Ed prepared at...
Eric Alvin Jones '75
Fashion designer Eric Jones died Feb. 18, 1998. He was 44. A native of Orange, N.J., he was an honors graduate of Arts H.S. and, while a student there, was a costume...
Franklin P. Jones '57
Frank died Aug. 13, 2009, after a long and brave battle with cancer. During his Princeton years he majored in history and joined Tiger Inn. His senior roommates were...
G. Seaver Jones '36
Seaver died of a heart attack July 29, 1996. He was83. He prepared at St. Pauls School. At Princeton he majored in politics and was a member of Cap and Gown Club. He was...
Geoffrey Montogmery Talbot Jones '42
Geoffrey Montgomery Talbot Jones, a survivor of heroic service during World War II, died of malignant melanoma July 20, 2007, in New York City. Jeff came to Princeton...
Graham Jones '29
GRAY DIED on Aug. 30, 1989. He prepared for college at Kent. At Princeton he played freshman and varsity football, freshman and varsity hockey (captain of both), and...
Guilford Jones Jr. '38
GIL JONES died June 27, 1992, after a long illness. He had suffered from manic depression for several years, and although his lithium medication was effective, it could...
Harold Massie Jones '30
HAROLD DIED after a lengthy illness Sept. 9, 1990, in Richmond, Va. He had attended major reunions consistently and had reservations for our 60th but had to cancel. At...
Horace C. Jones II '38
Horace Jones, who spent most of his life in suburban Philadelphia, died June 8, 2011, in South Dartmouth, Mass. Horace graduated from The Hill School. At Princeton he...
James Richard Jones '40
Dick, later known as “Digger,” died Nov. 15, 2006, from pneumonia complicated by post-polio syndrome. He had contracted polio at age 16. A graduate of the Kingsley...
Jason Jones '86
THE CLASS of 1986 mourns the death of Jason Jones, who passed away of lymphoma Oct. 20, 1990, in N.Y.C. Jason graduated from Long Branch High School in Long Branch,...
John E. Jones Jr. '37
FOUNDER of a threegeneration Princeton family, John Jones died Dec. 15, 1993. The cancer for which he was operated on in Dec. 1991 metastisized. He did have the joy of...
Lloyd Paul Jones Jr. '44
“Jonesy” came to us from Brooklyn’s Poly Prep, where he’d been active in football, track and lacrosse, and he roomed freshman year in Holder. But beyond that, our...
Morgan R. Jones '61
Dick Jones died of pneumonia Dec. 17, 2010, at Christiana Hospital in Wilmington, Del. Born in Luzerne County, Pa., he came to Princeton from Wyoming Seminary. At...
Nathan Ford Jones '38
Nate died Sept. 19, 2006, at his home in Upper Montclair, N.J. He prepared at Monroe High School in Rochester, N.Y., where he was a member of the honor society and was...
Reginald Lamont Jones Jr. '48
Reg Jones, a resident of Darien, Conn., since 1980, died Sept. 24, 2009. In his later years he was a highly respected public servant in Darien and for the state of...
Robert Labarre Jones Jr. '86
ROBERT LABARRE JONES JR. died in a tragic automobile accident July 21, 1989. Bobby, as his family and friends knew him, was a young man with truly enormous energy and...
Roger Wesley Jones Jr. '66
Roger died peacefully Dec. 27, 2005, surrounded by his family. Two weeks earlier, a few hours after decorating a Christmas tree with his wife and daughters, he had...
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...
Thomas Harding Jones '72
T. Harding Jones died July 31, 2007, of pancreatic cancer, in Branford, Conn. Harding came to Princeton from Middletown, Ohio, a graduate of Lemon-Monroe High School....
Thomas Henry Jones '35
Born in Harrisburg, Pa., Tom died in his sleep in Tarpon Springs, Fla., on Dec. 11, 1999. He was 87. He prepared for Princeton at Harrisburg Academy, where he was...
W. Boardman Jones Jr. '37
Ardent Princetonian and ever-cheerful Boardie Jones died Nov. 21, 1998. His wife of 53 years, Becky, survives him, as do daughters Becky and Muffy and four...
Waring Jones '51
Writer, theatrical producer, and benefactor of local theater, Waring was born Sept. 6, 1927, in Minneapolis, the son of Carl W. Jones 1911 and Helen Winton Jones, sister...
William Gould Jones '38
Gould died peacefully at San Rafael, Calif., May 3, 2003.He came to Princeton from St. Alban's School and majored in history. He was a member of the yacht club all four...
Arthur Martin Joost Jr. '41
Art died unexpectedly Sept. 22, 2006, at his home on Verona Island, Maine. Art came to Princeton from Exeter. He majored in classics, winning numerous awards for his...
Brady R. Jordan '16
Brady R. Jordan died peacefully on Sept. 18, 1989, in the retirement community in Lacey, Wash., where he had lived for the years since he retired from Duke Univ. He...
Michael H. Jordan *59
Michael Jordan, who had successfully turned around major corporations, died May 25, 2010, of neuroendocrine cancer. He was 73. Jordan graduated from Yale in 1957, and...
Robert Hardin Jordan '23
BOB, LIKE Willa Cather's Archbishop, died of having lived, when he left us on Aug. 17, 1989. He was born in Savannah, Tenn. on Jan. 17, 1901. Bob prepared for college at...
Peter T. Joseph '72
Peter Joseph died June 25, 1998, of cancer at his home in Manhattan. At the time of his death, Peter was the chairman and CEO of Rosecliff, Inc., a merchant banking...
Godfrey Preiser Krause Jr '49
G. K. died Dec. 20, 2001. He was 73. He prepared for Princeton at Newark Academy. He majored in public and international affairs, was a reporter for the Daily...
JOHN MONTAGUE ELY JR '41
Jy died March 30, 2007, from complications following surgery, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A descendant of one of Cedar Rapids’ founding families, his father was in the Class...
John Smith Francis Jr '35
Jay died Oct. 14, 2000. He graduated from Episcopal HS in Alexandria, Va., and at Princeton majored in economics, played basketball, sang in the Glee Club, and authored...
Robert Habgood Patton Jr, '34
BOB HABGOOD, a prominent civic leader of his home¬town, Bradford, Penn., died on Sept. 15, 1989. The local newspaper wondered in an editorial "how one man, however...
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...
William Podolak Jr '49
Bill died Feb. 15, 1998. He prepared for Princeton at Irvington HS and Newark Technical School, and served in the Army Air Corps in Europe from 1942-45.At Princeton he...
William Waldron Lovering Jr '51
Bill was born June 20, 1929, in Minneapolis and died June 17, 2005, after a three-and-a-half-year struggle with ALS.He graduated from Shattuck-St. Mary's School in...
F. TREMAINE BILLINGS JR. '33
F. Tremaine “Josh” Billings Jr., Rhodes Scholar, gifted athlete, and respected professor of medicine, died Sept. 16, 2007, in Nashville, Tenn. He was 95. Josh graduated...
NORMAN MCCLAVE JR. '34
Norm McClave, who worked at Northern Trust Co. in Chicago from 1934 to 1977 and retired as a senior vice president, died Nov. 16, 2007, in Evanston, Ill., of...
Allen Richard Bray Jr. '50
Dick died peacefully May 12, 2007, in his Mendham, N.J., home. He had been in failing health. After graduating from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill., in 1943, he...
Frank K. Ewing Jr. '50
Frank died at his North Carolina residence Sept. 1, 2004. He was an Exeter graduate. At Princeton he was commissioned in the ROTC, joined Cannon Club, and received his...
Gazaway Lamar Crittenden Jr. '65
Lem died Aug. 1, 2007, in the crash of his ultralight plane while he was attempting to land at Cranland Airport in Hanson, Mass. Lem was raised in Dover, Mass.,...
Herman Ulmer Jr. '42
Herdy Ulmer died of heart failure March 19, 2008, in Jacksonville, Fla. He was born in Jacksonville and prepared at The Hill School. At Princeton, Herdy played on the...
Howard Menand Jr. '36
Howie succumbed to Alzheimer's April 9, 2007. One of our brightest shining stars is dimmed. Howie came to Princeton from Albany Academy. He was business manager of...
IRA B. RICHARDS JR. *49
Ira B. Richards Jr., who retired in 1965 as a colonel in the Army after 26 years of service and then continued working at the State Department on nuclear weapons control...
Joseph Baker Knotts Jr. '60
Joe Knotts died of a heart attack Dec. 18, 2007, in Leesburg, Va. He lived in Purcellville, Va. Joe was born in Baltimore and prepared for Princeton at The Hill School....
Lawrence P. Mills Jr. '40
Larry died March 12, 2008, at his Tryon Estates home in Columbia, N.C. Preparing at Hotchkiss, Tome, and Berkshire, he followed his father, Lawrence...
MADISON M. MYERS JR. '50 *52
“Mad” died July 17, 2007, at his home in Muskegon, Mich. After World War II Army service, he entered Princeton and accelerated to earn an undergraduate degree from the...
MALCOLM F. BRENNEN JR. '54
Malcolm Brennen died Nov. 19, 2007. He had been diagnosed with throat cancer in September 2006. A graduate of Middleton (Ohio) High School, he left Princeton after his...
Malcolm Matheson Jr. '36
Matty died of respiratory failure Dec. 21, 2007, at the farm home he built in 1938 in Fairfax County, Va. He was 94. As a child Matty lived mostly at...
RICHARD G. JONES JR. '54
Richard Jones died Nov. 15, 2007, at Hudson Valley Hospital in Peekskill, N.Y., after a long illness. Dick was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Lakewood...
Rowland E. Roberts Jr. '50
Rowly died Jan. 1, 2008, in Wilmington, Del. Rowly, son of Rowland E. Roberts '28, was born and raised in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He graduated from the Episcopal Academy. At...
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...
William Aloysius Dwyer Jr. '48
Bill Dwyer died Feb. 29, 2008. He was born in Paterson, N.J., in 1927. He attended Newark Academy before Princeton, where he was a premed major in the Navy V-12...
WILLIAM B. WOLF JR. '47
Our memorable classmate Bill — so admired for his wit and unbounded enthusiasm for Princeton and ’47 — died Aug. 28, 2007. During World War II, he served tours in both...
WILLIAM J. CROWE JR. *65
Adm. William J. Crowe Jr. *65, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, died Oct. 18, 2007. He was 82. Crowe graduated from the...
William Robert Milnor Jr. '41
Bill died Jan. 3, 2008, at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care in Baltimore. Bill prepared for Princeton at Wilmington's Pierre duPont School and Tower Hill School. A...
William Whipple Jr. *36
William Whipple Jr., a retired Army brigadier general, Rhodes scholar, and civil engineer, died Aug. 23, 2007, in Princeton. He was 98. Whipple graduated from West Point...
Thomas Marshall Judd '41
Tom died July 10, 2006, after a brief illness, at his home in Monterey, Calif. He was a graduate of Principia School in St. Louis. At Princeton, he majored in the...
Wallace Wylie Judd '39
Wylie died Feb. 5, 2001, of a massive heart attack. He and Vera, his wife of 61 years, had just moved in November to Adamstown, Md., to be near members of their family....
David E. Judson '54
David died Jan. 16, 2005, at his daughter's home in Hamilton, N.J.Born in Massena, N.Y., Dave prepared for Princeton at Norwich High School and New York State Teachers...
Franklin Sale Judson '42
Jud died of heart failure July 23, 2002, in Greenwich, Conn., where he had lived for the past 25 years. He retired in 1984 as president of Stroheim & Romann, one of the...
Robert D. Judson '47
Bob joined us in 1943 from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. He soon left to serve in the Atlantic fleet during the war.On his return to Princeton he became a...
Sheldon Judson '40
Archeologist and retired professor of geosciences, Shel Judson died May 20, 1999, after a notable professional career. He graduated with honors in geology and was Press...
David Sequin Junker '39
Dave, a longtime resident of New York, died Feb. 5, 2007, at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan. After college Dave earned a law degree from Harvard in 1942 and...
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