Current Issue
Feb. 9, 2011
Vol. 111, No. 7
Memorials
Memorials by Class: 1966
Robert Quincy Baker III '66
Quincy died at his home in Coshocton, Ohio, on Sept. 21, 2002.At Princeton, Quincy was an electrical engineering major, a member of Whig-Clio, and a member of the Pistol...
Christopher B. Bedford '66
Chris died June 15, 2011, in Montague, Mich. Chris came to Princeton from St. George’s School, in Newport, R.I. He majored in politics and belonged to Whig-Clio and...
F. Martin Belmore '66
Marty died Sept. 5, 2004, in Skokie, Ill., after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 60.Marty was the son of Frederick Martin Belmore, who helped develop the atomic...
Philip J. Berg '66
Philip Berg died Sept. 20, 2011, at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J. Philip was born in Kenya and graduated from Vineland (N.J.) High School. He was...
Rexford Taylor Brown '66
We lost Rex Oct. 16, 2006, when he died peacefully in his sleep at his home, in Jackson, Miss. Rex grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and graduated from Shaker Heights...
Ronald Emerson Burns '66
Ronald Emerson Burns died of cancer at his home in Cambridge, Mass., July 25, 2003. He was 60.Ron invented a computer-based X-ray detector for molecular analysis that...
John Arne Carlson '66
John Carlson died March 10, 2009. He entered Princeton with our class after graduating from Nicholas Senn High School in Chicago. He remained at Princeton for three...
Randall Meads Chastain '66
Randy died May 23, 2004.He was born in Nampa, Idaho, and graduated from Jefferson High School in Edgewater, Colo., where he excelled in academics, sports, drama, and...
Jack A. Cohen '66
Jack Cohen died July 27, 2011. Jack came to Princeton from Hillside (N.J.) High School, where he won prizes in debate and math and was a National Merit Scholar. At...
Charles Olney Cook III '66
Tony died April 9, 2008, after an eight-year struggle with prostate cancer. He was born in La Jolla, Calif., and prepared for college at St. George’s School, where he...
Arthur F. Davidsen '66
The class lost one of our country's most distinguished astrophysicists when Art Davidsen died July 19, 2001. Art had a recurring lung disorder, and died in the arms of...
Mark L. Davidson '66
Mark Davidson lost his battle against cancer June 18, 1998. Mark died in Washington, D.C., where he had been in government service as deputy director of the Bureau of...
Marcel Doublier '66
MARCEL "RICK" DOUBLIER, physician and tireless researcher into a cure for AIDS, has been claimed by complications resulting from the disease whose cure he fought so...
Richard J. Dzimiszkiewicz '66
Richard died Sept. 16, 2001. He entered Princeton with the Class of '64. He worked as a busboy in Commons and joined Dial Lodge in the spring of his sophomore year. He...
Archibald Cameron Elias Jr. '66
Arch died of lung cancer July 10, 2008. He grew up in Philadelphia and prepared for Princeton at the Pomfret School, where he was president of his class and of the...
Richard Macdougall Farrell '66
The class learned only this spring of the death of Dick Farrell in March 1984. A native of Teaneck, N.J., Dick graduated from the Gilman School in Baltimore. At...
Spencer W. Franck Jr. '66
Spence Franck died Oct. 23, 2009, at the age of 64. Spence was born in New York City. He graduated from the McBurney School, where he was a four-year member of the...
Theodore M. French '66
Ted died on Sept. 23, 2001, in the Forest Haven Nursing Home in Catonsville, Md., from complications of a kidney disease. Ted was born in NYC, the son of Theodore '38....
John M. Friedman Jr. '66
The class lost one of its most well-rounded and accomplished members when John died March 17, 2011, after a long and courageous struggle with pulmonary fibrosis. At...
H. Burton Gay III '66
Burt Gay lost his year-long battle with pancreatic cancer Dec. 3, 2010. Burt was born in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and educated at the Haverford School, where he was ranked as the...
Joseph Craig Graddy '66
JOSEPH CRAIG GRADDY perished July 15, 1990, in a trekking accident along the Inca Trail in the Andes Mountains of Peru. He fell 300 feet to his death while photographing...
James Roby Green '66
JAMES ROBY GREEN, gifted teacher and an effective advocate for improving the quality of health care provided to women in the San Francisco area, was taken from us by...
Robert Edward Greenlaw '66
Bob Greenlaw died Mar. 3, 2004, at his home in Houston after a courageous battle with cancer.Bob came to Princeton from Houston's Spring Branch HS, where he served on...
William N. Havener '66
WLLLIAM NEWELL HAVENER, a dedicated father and husband, died Aug. 22, 1993, from complications of Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 50. At the time of his death, he was a...
Richard Wayne Hogan '66
Dick died March 8, 2008, after a brief illness. A native of Richmond, Va., Dick graduated from that city’s Manchester High School. At Princeton he was a Woodrow Wilson...
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, ...
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...
Warren S. Kafer '66
We learned only last January that our classmate, Warren Scott Kafer, died Aug. 1, 2007. Warren did not graduate with our class and did not maintain regular contact with...
William Everett Kane '66
BILL KANE died by his own hand Oct. 30, 1991. His death deprives us of a marvelous intellect and a lively and challenging personality. Bill came to Princeton from Baylor...
Edward Lawrence Katzenbach III '66
Edward Lawrence Katzenbach III, retired teacher of debate, English, and history, died Aug. 12, 1997, at Georgetown Medical Center of complications of diabetes. He was...
Stephen Rice Koller '66
DR. STEPHEN RICE KOLLER died Mar. 22, 1991, after a16 month struggle with cancer. His death brought an untimely end to a distinguished medical career.While at Princeton,...
Kenneth L. Kreidmann '66
“Kreidmann here.” That’s how Ken announced himself in regular telephone calls to some 85 percent of his Princeton classmates. For years classmates could expect calls...
John Gilbert Lea '66
JOHN GILBERT LEA, known to family and friends as "Biff," died by his own hand May 15, 1992, in Portland, Me.A thirdgeneration Princetonian raised in Princeton, Biff...
Joseph Michael Luongo '66
On April 5, 2008, Joe Luongo lost his seven-year battle with prostate cancer. Joe came to Princeton from Orange (N.J.) High School, where was captain of the football...
Guy F. Lytle III '66 *76
The class lost a nationally recognized religious and academic leader when Guy died July 15, 2011, from complications diabetes. Guy entered Princeton with the Class...
David Lawrence Mccarroll '66
Dave McCarroll died Dec. 6, 2002.Dave prepared for college at the John Burroughs School in St. Louis, where he was a National Merit finalist. He then followed his...
Charles A. Merlini '66
An aneurysm claimed Chuck’s life Aug. 26, 2009. Chuck excelled as a student and athlete at Great Neck (N.Y.) North High School on Long Island, starring in football,...
Barry Metzger '66
Barry Metzger died Dec. 22, 2012, in New York City from complications of pancreatic cancer. Barry came to Princeton from Columbia High School in Maplewood, N.J. He was...
Richard Thomas Muller '66
Rick died Oct. 17, 2007. He came to Princeton from Bethlehem (Pa.) Catholic High School, where he was a class officer and member of the wrestling team and honor...
John J. Nagorniak '66
The Class suffered a blow Sept. 7, 2012, when we lost John Nagorniak after a long illness. A Buffalo native, John graduated from the Nichols School. At Princeton he...
Edward Charles Nykwest '66
Ed died of a heart attack Oct. 13, 2005, at his home in Stanley, Va.Born Edward Welling in Yonkers, N.Y., Ed was adopted by his mother's second husband, Clarence...
Charles K. Okstein '66
We lost Charlie to kidney disease March 25, 2006, in Phoenix, Ariz. He was 61.Charlie was born in Cambridge, Mass., and graduated from Milton High. At Princeton he...
Lex A. Passman '66
Lex died April 29, 2012, at his home in Pottsboro, Texas. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Lex was born in Kansas City, Mo., and graduated from that city’s...
W. Lee Rawls '66
Lee Rawls died of acute leukemia Dec. 5, 2010. Lee grew up in Philadelphia and graduated from Chestnut Hill Academy, where he was class valedictorian and an outstanding...
Gregg Rice '66
Gregg died Jan. 19, 2003, of respiratory failure following a five-year bout with Alzheimer's.Gregg came to Princeton from Vineland [N.J.] High School, majored in...
Alan G. Rockhold '66
Alan died Jan. 22, 2011. Alan graduated from the Principia Upper School in St. Louis, where he played football and baseball. In choosing Princeton he followed a family...
Andrew Neal Sears '66
Andy died Nov. 9, 2002, in an automobile accident in Georgia while returning from vacation.Andy was with the law firm of Bower, Sanger and Lawrence in NYC, specializing...
David Farrington Sexton '66
Dave died unexpectedly Sept. 26, 2007, while on a business trip in Boston. He lived in Greenwich, Conn., and had a summer home in Sargentville, Maine. Dave graduated...
John H. W. Simpson '66
THE CLASS LOST one of its most courageous members when John Simpson died of a heart attack while bicycling near Rocky Hill, N.J., Sept. 19, 1993. John's death occurred...
Jordan Taylor '66
Jordan died Jan. 6, 2001, in Vienna, Austria, after suffering a massive heart attack during a squash match. Jordan and his wife, Kyoko, had moved to Vienna in 2000, when...
Dag Tellefsen '66
Dag died on Sept. 12, 2000, of neuroendocrine cancer. Born in Oslo, Norway, he majored in civil engineering and served in the Norwegian Army Corps of Engineers after...
John Orr Theobald '66
Princeton's lost a friend. We've lost a friend. Theo died of cancer in Phoenix May 1, 2003.For each of us during those handful of life's events that we got to share with...
Michael C. Tice '66
Mike died May 18, 2012, cardiac arrest, following a long battle with cancer. He entered Princeton from Fort Myers (Fla.) Senior High School, where he was president...
Reginald Frederik Nicolai Ungern '66
Reg died Oct. 18, 2009, at age 65. He took his own life at Devil’s Slide, near Pacifica, Calif. Reg grew up in the Baltimore area and graduated from the Gilman School,...
Bruce Peter Vanda '66
The class learned only this spring of the death of Bruce Vanda on Feb. 9, 1996. Bruce came to Princeton from Beverly Hills High School, where he was senior class...
James C. Westfall Jr. '66
Jay Westfall died Oct. 17, 2003, at age 60.After graduating from Montclair [N.J.] HS, Jay followed his father, James '27, and brother, William '62, to Princeton,...
Edward Bostick Whitman II '66
Ned died July 27, 1995 in Essex, Conn., after a yearlong, courageous battle with liver cancer.Born in Baltimore, he soon moved with his family to Avon, Conn. Ned prepped...
Richard Irwin Wile '66
Dick lost his battle with cancer Nov. 17, 2005.A native of Pittsburgh, Dick graduated from that city's Alderdice High School, where he was valedictorian, student council...
Daniel Atherton Winterbottom Jr. '66
Dan died Oct. 28, 2004, in Dallas, from complications following heart surgery.At Princeton, Dan majored in history, was a member of Campus Club, and served as managing...
Austin A. Wright III '66
Austin died at his home, in Point Pleasant, N.J., Feb. 11, 2005.Austin was born in Trenton. He graduated from the Peddie School and originally entered Princeton with the...
Richard A. Zeis '66
(The following memorial was posted at PAW Online on April 27, 2011; it did not appear in the print editions of PAW.) The Class learned only in January 2010 that our...
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