Current Issue
Mar. 2, 2011
Vol. 111, No. 8
Memorials
Memorials by Name: S
Henry Robinson Saalfield '37
Hank died at his home in Hudson, Ohio, on July 8, 2002, only three months after the death of Ginger, his beloved wife of 64 years. He was 88.He came to us from...
Robert Sutton Saalfield Jr. '42
Bob died Oct. 11, 1995, in Savannah, Ga., his home for the past 20 years. He had been in ill health for some time and was on oxygen for emphysema at the time of his...
Hilbert S. Sabin '32
Hib, a retired urologist who had a private practice in Washington, D.C., before becoming assistant chief of surgery for the Veterans Administration, died Dec. 28, 2004....
David John Sachs *53
DAVID JOHN SACHS *53, retired professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins Univ., succumbed to cancer Nov. 23, 1992, at the age of 71. He was distinguished among his peers...
Frederick L. Sachs '59
Fred Sachs, physician and hospital administrator, died of prostate cancer at his home in Woodbridge, Conn., on June 20, 1999.Fred was born in Brooklyn and came to...
Richard F. Sachse '45
DICK SACHSE died Apr. 18, 1993, after a month-long battle with a rampant infection. He was 69.Dick spent his entire life in the North Shore suburbs of Chicago, entering...
Paul Robert Gray Sackett '60
Paul died March 17, 2008. He resided in Stamford, N.Y., at the time of his death. Paul came to Princeton from the Choate School. He left Princeton and completed his...
Erwin Preston SacksWilner '34
ERWIN SACKSWILNER, a retired ophthalmologist who practiced in Trenton for over 50 years, died Dec. 8 in the Univ. of Pennsylvania Hospital. He had been chief of the...
Houstoun Mcintosh Sadler '24
Houstoun Sadler died Dec. 5, 1995. He was born Sept. 17, 1900, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to John M. Sadler (a cotton broker) and Alice P. Horton. He had a brother and a...
Henry William Safarik '50
Henry died of cancer June 2, 1997, in his Suntree, Fla., home, peacefully and surrounded by family.He prepared at the Peddie School. His Princeton career was interrupted...
Bruce Keenan Saffery '51
Bruce was born June 23, 1929, in Newark, N.J. At Princeton he majored in mechanical engineering, was active in intramural sports, belonged to Cannon, and graduated...
Nadav Safran *55
Nadav Safran was 77 when he died of cancer July 5, 2003, in State College, Pa.An expert in Middle Eastern politics, Safran had the unique perspective of a Jew born in...
Frank E. Sagendorph III '31
Bud was born June 25, 1909, in Lansdowne, Pa., and died Feb. 4, 2000. He lived in Hilton Head Island at the time of his death, a victim of Alzheimer's.He prepared at the...
Carl Philip Sahler '25
CARL SAHLER was born in Germantown, N.Y., in 1905, and graduated from Andover. At Princeton he won his letter in soccer and was a member of Terrace. He left us at the...
Boris Said Jr. '55
Boris (also known as Bob Said and Bob Sled) died of colon cancer on Mar. 24, 2002.Boris was reared in Greenwich, Conn., and came to Princeton from Deerfield. He left...
Edward W. Said '57
Ed died Sept. 25, 2003, of leukemia, which he had battled since 1991.He was born in Jerusalem, moving to Cairo in his youth. In 1951 he was sent to Mount Hermon School,...
Henry P. Sailer '50
Henry, an antitrust lawyer, died June 22, 2010, of congestive heart failure. He had lived in Washington, D.C., since 1956. He was born in Beijing, where his father,...
Walter A. Saitta '44
Walt died March 31, 2008, in Doraville, Ga. He was 87. Walt was a leader in the insurance business for most of his career. Born in Westfield, N.J., the son of a...
Saturnino Lieven Salas '52
A mathematician and writer, Joe graduated from Hotchkiss. At Princeton, he joined Ivy Club, and roomed with Bob Jiranek, Bill Brokaw, and Mike Mooney. He married...
Jay D. Sales '84
Jay died unexpectedly in his sleep Oct. 2, 2004, from cardiac arrest due to complications from diabetes. He was 41.Jay grew up in Pittsburgh, and came to Princeton from...
Eugene J. Saletan *60
Eugene Saletan, a retired professor of physics emeritus at Northeastern University, died July 3, 2012, of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He was 87. During World War II,...
Peter A. Salm '50
PETER SALM DIED Mar. 12, 1994, at the Mount Sinai Hospital in N.Y.C. after a long struggle with viral hepatitis. Born in N.Y.C., he spent most of his youth in St. Anton,...
David Milton Salman '58
Dave died Feb. 28, 2010. Dave came to Princeton from Las Vegas High School, where he was an all-state football player. An art major at Princeton, he wrote his thesis on...
Abram Dickerson Salmon III '28
DICK SALMON died on Dec. 4, 1989, at the Naples Hospital in Florida after a short illness. He and his wife Edwina, who survives him, lived at 62 Fifth St., South,...
Hamilton H. Salmon III '41
"Tad" Salmon of Ponte Vedra Beach died Aug. 18, 1997, after an extended illness. His wife, the former Barbara Thompson Welch, survives.Born in Brooklyn, Tad attended...
Ebrahim A. Saloojee *72
Ebrahim A. Saloojee, a prominent figure in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, died of Alzheimer’s disease Feb. 1, 2009. He was 73. Saloojee was a Parvin Fellow...
Richard Lyon Salsbury '42
Dick died Nov. 26, 1999, at Oakmont Nursing Home in Oakmont, Pa., of a stroke. A stockbroker, he retired in 1996 from the companies that today make up Morgan Stanley...
James Brady Salsich '38
JIM SALSICH, retired prep school teacher and much admired classmate, died Apr. 27, 1992, in Albuquerque, after several years of battling ill health with cheerfulness and...
Elwin James Salter '39
EL, WHO DIED June 25, 1993, of gastric cancer, once wrote, "If your life work is interesting and you have a good family, you have a good life." By those standards, he...
Arnold W. Sametz *51
Arnold W. Sametz, professor of economics and finance emeritus at New York University, died March 19, 2009. Sametz graduated from Brooklyn College in 1940, and...
Thomas Drake Samford '55
Thomas Samford died at his home in Opelika, Ala., Aug. 8, 2003 after a lengthy battle with cancer.Thomas was a Naval ROTC student and member of the Nassoons. He joined...
Evan P. Sampatacos '67
Evan Sampatacos died of cancer Dec. 13, 2007, in Scottsdale, Ariz. A graduate of Cheshire (Conn.) High School, he concentrated in Princeton’s aerospace and mechanical...
Edward Sampson Jr. '42 *50
ED DIED Jan. 4, 1992, of Alzheimer's disease, in Boulder, Colo., his home for nearly 40 years. He devoted his entire career to teaching civil engineering, retiring in...
Edward W. Samson *32
EDWARD W. SAMSON *32, physicist, inventor, philosopher, man of faith, and amateur musician, died on July 14,1989, in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85. Born in Winnipeg, he...
Pierre Samuel *47
Pierre Samuel, professor of mathematics emeritus at the University of Paris-South, died Aug. 23, 2009, at the age of 87. Samuel published his first math paper in 1942,...
James Wesley Samuels '34
Jimmy Samuels, the perennial host of our "Big Three" luncheons in Jadwin Gym, died on Aug. 6, 1989, at his home in Princeton while watching television with his wife...
Kenneth Bayard Samuels '50
Ken died Aug. 25, 2009, after a valiant fight against cancer. He was described as a man of great heart and humble in spirit. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and...
John R. L. Sanborn '67
We have learned that John died Sept. 22, 1998, of lung cancer. He started with '63 and roomed with lifelong friend Steve Molasky '63, who provided this memorial.John met...
John M. Sanborne '47
John Sanborne died June 5, 2011, in Scottsdale, Ariz. John went directly from high school in Hackensack, N.J., into the Army infantry, serving in the European theater...
John F. Sand '47
Jack was swept into the Army in ’44 and served overseas in Italy for a year. In his senior year, Nancy Muffin entered his life — first as a blind date and...
Hans K. Sander *55
Hans K. Sander died Feb. 2, 2004, in Princeton. He was 79.Born in Berlin, Sander emigrated to the US in 1937. He attended Columbia and earned an MFA at Princeton's...
Charles Loy Sanders Jr. '41
Chas died Jan. 1, 2007, in Sacramento, Calif. Coming from Jamaica (N.Y.) High School, he majored in SPIA at Princeton and graduated with highest honors. While at...
Jack Lincoln Sanders '52
Jack Sanders died April 22, 2005, at home in Snyder, N.Y., from complications of a rare neurological disorder, multisystems atrophy, for which there remains no...
Laura Elisabeth Sanders '78
Cancer claimed a dear classmate when Laura, "LB," died in May 2002, of ovarian cancer. She fought the disease for four years, to store up a lifetime of memories for her...
William Lee Sanders '34
Bill Lee, an outstanding citizen of Columbus, Miss., where he was born and lived all his life, died Dec. 8, 2002, after a long illness. He was 90.A former chairman of...
Allan Irwin Sandler '51
Allan died Feb. 5, 2001, of congestive heart failure. He was very disappointed not to have had a heart transplant. He so admired Jack Bogle '51 for the courageous and...
Albert Theodore Sandquist III '59
Ted Sandquist died of heart problems Nov. 21, 1995, at his home in Pipersville, Pa.Ted grew up in Westfield, N.J., where he attended high school. An economics major at...
James Robert Sands '44
Jim Sands died Nov. 15, 1998, in NYC. He came to Princeton from South Pasadena H.S. and majored in English. He was a member of Colonial Club. He served in the US Navy...
Richard K. Sands '49
Dick died peacefully Aug. 28, 2010, after a valiant battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 82. Dick was born July 23, 1928, the son of Walter Harold and...
Harry Noel Sandstedt '59
HARRY DIED June 21, 1991, after a yearlong illness. His energy and determination kept him active and productive to the end.Following graduate work at the Univ. of...
Elizabeth M. Sanford h '45
On May 12, 2011, the class lost an important officer and honorary member when Betty Sanford died at the University Medical Center in Princeton after a short illness....
Stephen Jennings Sanford '28
Steve Sanford died in West Palm Beach, Fla., Mar. 21, 1997, after an illness following a stroke.At Princeton he was a member of the Court Club. He began his career as an...
William B. Sanford '41
We have learned that Ben died of Alzheimer’s disease Sept. 8, 2008, in Dallas, Texas. Ben came to Princeton from the Peddie School, majored in architecture, joined...
Edward Johnson Sanger '39
After suffering from Alzheimer's for several years, Ted died in Medford, Ma., Apr. 26, 2000. In our 40th year book Ted wrote "Princeton taught me an open-mindedness and...
Leonard R. Sargent '37
Len Sargent died Feb. 16, 1997, of a heart attack, leaving wife Sandy, children Kerri and Rick, and three granddaughters.He prepared for Princeton at Gunnery. At...
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...
Stanley Jay Sarnoff '38
THE CLASS of 1938 lost one of its truly outstanding members with the death of Stan Sarnoff May 23. How most unfortunate that a pioneer in cardiac research should succumb...
John Manfred Sartorius '42
John died Mar. 23, 1998, in Quogue, N.Y., his summer home for many years, and after retirement in 1980, his permanent home. He had been in poor health for many...
Franklin Bache Satterthwaite '38
Frank died peacefully in his sleep on June 30, 2003, in Cranston, R.I.A son of Pennington and Helen (Peabody) Satterthwaite of Short Hills, N.J., Frank graduated from...
William A. Saums '22
BILL SAUMS DIED peacefully Mar. 9, 1993. He was 93. He had moved to Hillsdale, N.Y., from N.Y.C. after retiring as a broker for commercial and industrial real estate. He...
David Mckeon Saunders *52
David McKeon Saunders, a Naval officer, businessman and avid yachtsman, died in Annapolis June 16, 2004, from complications of a stroke. He was 83.Born and raised in...
David Richard Saunders '53
David, an emeritus professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine who was voted by his students as "Teacher Superior in Perpetuity," died of non-Hodgkin's...
Walter H. Saunders Jr. '26
WALTER SAUNDERS, noted as an expert in the field of ship financing, died on July 3, 1989, at the age of 83. Walt joined the class in 1923 on a transfer from the Univ. of...
William A. Saupe '49
Bill died Sept. 23, 2001, at home with his family after a long battle with cancer. He was 73. He prepared at Lawrenceville. At Princeton he majored in engineering, was a...
Arthur V. Savage '48
Art died Dec. 26, 2012. He was born in New York City, and grew up in Morristown, N.J. Art and Harriet (“Hat”) lived all their married life in Pelham, N.Y. Art practiced...
Erle B. Savage Jr. '36
Erle, of Long Lake, Minn., died May 30, 1999.He prepared at the Blake School in Minneapolis, graduating cum laude. At Princeton, he majored in English and belonged to...
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...
Godfrey H. Savage '50
Jeff died suddenly Jan. 7, 2004, in New Hampshire.Originally in the Class of '49, Jeff graduated in 1950 with high honors in geological engineering and election to Phi...
John Richard Savage '31
JACK DIED Oct. 1, 1992, at Bainbridge Island, Wash. He prepared at Westminster School. While at Princeton, he held the Brown Scholarship arid was a member of Tiger Inn....
Willfim Lyttleton Savage '20
WILLIAM LYTTLETON SAVAGE died at Meadow Lakes Jan. 25,1990. To say Bill was an outstanding member of the Class of 1920 is still an understatement. To his gifts of...
Donald Brush Sawhill '51
DON DIED SUDDENLY on Feb. 11, 1991, while vacationing in Delray Beach, Fla. He lived in Pittsburgh.His life was about as full as it could be. He was a musician; he...
John Crittenden Sawhill '58
John died from complications from diabetes on May 18, 2000. He came to Princeton from Gilman School in Baltimore; majored in the Woodrow Wilson School; was a member of...
David Haskell Sawyer '59
David Sawyer, a pioneer political consultant, died July 2, 1995, of a brain tumor. His wife, Nell Michel Sawyer, died of cancer two weeks later.Born in Boston, Dave...
Edward G. Sawyer '49
Ed Sawyer died Dec. 17, 2010, at his home in St. Johnsbury, Vt., of complications related to lymphoma. Ed was a well-known figure in northeastern Vermont who frequently...
Randall Fay Sawyer '25
Ran Sawyer was born in Flushing, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1903, and died Jan. 13, 1994, in the Clara Burke Nursing Home in Pennsylvania. He attended Montclair [N.J.] H.S. and at...
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,...
Phillip Allen Sayles Jr. '42
Phil died Dec. 21, 2002, in La Jolla, Calif., from complications of radiation treatment. One of our brightest, he had a brilliant career in retailing and real estate...
Bernard Streeper Sayre '39
Bernie died Feb. 18, 2002, of complications from Parkinson's. He had been living in Cumberland Island, Fla., since moving back to this country from Wiltshire, England,...
James Wilcox Sayre '37
Jim died Feb. 15, 2002, in Robbinsdale, Minn. He came to us from Montclair [N.J.] HS and majored in French. Following graduation, he took an MA in history from Montclair...
John Morris Sayre '36
JACK DIED of a long illness Oct. 3, 1992, at home in Montclair, N.J. He was 78.He prepared at Montclair Academy. At Princeton, he majored in philosophy and was a member...
Robert H. Sayre '31
AN EXECUTIVE with E.F. Hutton before he retired, Bob Sayre died Jan. 15, 1991, at his home in Montrose, Penn. He came to college from the Kent School and was the...
Robert W. Sayre '37
Bob died March 26, 2006, at his home in Haverford, Pa. He was 90.He grew up in Germantown, Pa., and attended Penn Charter School, where he played soccer and was known...
Sinclaire M. Scala *57
Sinclaire Scala, an aerospace engineer who had worked in the early space program, died Feb. 19, 2011, after a brief illness. He was 81. Scala received a bachelor’s...
Daniel Reid Scally '53 *55
Dan, who was ranked No. 1 in his group of electrical engineers and went on to receive a master’s degree in engineering at Princeton’s Graduate School before joining TRW...
James G. Scarff '22
THE CLASS LOST one of its most dedicated and hard working members Oct. 11, 1992. Jim died peacefully with Iris, Suzy, and Jimmy at his side. He suffered a kidney failure...
Charles Edward Scarlett Jr. '32
A leader in our class, Charlie Scarlett died of natural causes Sept. 21, 1997, at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Baltimore.At Princeton Charlie was a member of the...
Deborah Lynn Schade '85
DEBORAH DIED Jan. 18, 1990, at the age of 26.Born in Mountain View, Calif., she graduated with honors from Await High School, where she was V.P. of the student body, and...
Henry R. Schaefer '31
HENRY R. SCHAEFER died Jan. 20, 1990. A longtime Buffalo resident and a graduate of Nichols prep school, Hank moved to Port Colborne, Ontario, after retiring from...
J. Louis Schaefer III '50
Lou died Sept. 2, 2012, in Ponte Vedra, Fla., his home since 1995. He was born in New York and raised in Greenwich, Conn., where he graduated from the Brunswick...
James G. Schaefer '50
Jim died Aug. 16, 2012, in Rhode Island, where he had lived for 41 years. Born in New York, he graduated from the Brunswick School in Greenwich, Conn., where he was...
Alan Murray Schaeffer '36
Alan, a resident of Cherry Hill, N.J., died June 3, 1999. He was 85.Alan prepared at the Penn Charter School. At Princeton, he majored in chemistry, with honors, and in...
Frederic Jordan Schaettler '40
Frederic J. Schaettler died of pneumonia Feb. 15, 2009, in Danbury, Conn. Fred was born in New York City, the son of Frederic V. Schaettler ’17. He prepared at the...
Robert M. Schafer '30
Bob died Feb. 13, 2006, in Carefree, Ariz. His good friend Dave Dennison '42 described his death as "gentle and filled with peace."Bob came to Princeton from The Hill...
David S. Schaff III '47
Dave died on Jan.1, 2001. He had had heart-bypass surgery in 1986 and had enjoyed excellent health since. However, on Jan. 1 he suffered a severe stroke, and died...
Philip Haynes Schaff Jr. '42
When Phil died June 11, 2001, in Evanston [Ill.] Hospital, of a viral infection, the class suffered a most grievous loss. A loving husband, caring father, and dedicated...
Walter Schaff Jr. '44
Wally Schaff died on Jan. 11, 2000, six years after he had written in our 50-year book, "By-pass heart operations are all the rage, so I joined the club in 1990, but now...
Franklin E. Schaffer '45
Frank died from cardiac arrest Nov. 11, 2010. Frank entered Princeton from New Rochelle (N.Y.) High School. His Army service in the Pacific theater, where he...
Philip Pettibone Schaffner '33
Phil died Apr. 16, 1999. He was 87. He earned his PhD in economics at Ohio State U. He was a commander in the Navy during WWII. He retired from the US Treasury Dept....
Edward W. Schall '39
Surrounded by his loving family, Ed died July 23, 2012, at his home. He had retired to New York City in 1984 after his 28-year career as manager of the special...
John Baker Schaner '35
JOHN SCHANER died Nov. 27, 1992, at Hershey Medical Center, Penn. He was 79 and had been ill for a number of years. His primary health problem was hypoglycemia.Most of...
Ronald W. Scharff '71
Ron died on May 6, 1999. At his death, he was resident of Kingston, N.Y. Ron came to Princeton from Garden City [N.Y.] H.S. He majored in electrical engineering, with...
Sam Schatten '74
Sam Schatten was taken from us Sept. 27, 2008. Sam loved sports, partying, and lively discussions. He was a lifelong supporter of The Daily Princetonian. Sam was...
David J. Schauffler '32
DAVE SCHAUFFLER, who resided at a retirement community in Bellevue, Wash., died on Aug. 15, 1992. A memorial service was held on Sept. 19, the day he was be married...
G. Theodore Schaum '57
Ted Schaum was killed Feb. 5, 2007, in a car accident near Detroit Lakes, Minn. He was driving at night when a tractor-trailer did a U-turn in front of him, blocking the...
George R Scheele '57
GEORGE SCHEELE died Feb. 13, 1993, at New England Medical Center, of complications following second liver transplant. George was diagnosed with liver disease 14 years...
William Scheerer II '45
Bill Scheerer died Nov. 4, 2008. Bill entered Princeton from The Hill School, following in the footsteps of his father, Joseph ’21, and preceding his brother, Joseph...
Stephen Slaton Scheidt '60
Stephen died of prostate cancer Aug. 7, 2007, surrounded by his family on Whidbey Island, Wash. He prepared for Princeton at Forest Hills (N.Y.) High School, where he...
James Hamilton Scheifley '34
Jim Scheifley, who after nearly 25 years with the Ford Motor Co. retired in 1962 as industrial relations manager for Argentina, died May 22, 2008. He and his wife, the...
Arthur Daniel Schelberg '42
Art Schelberg died Nov. 16, 2009, in Los Alamos, N.M., his home for many years. He was born in New York City and prepared at Bronxville (N.Y.) High School. At Princeton,...
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...
Louis Schelling '48
Engaging, explorative, philosophical Lou, of Winchester, Mass., died of prostate cancer Dec. 27, 2005. He was 78.He came to Princeton in 1946 from Blair Academy, which...
Peter H. Schenck '56
Pete died of a heart attack Sept. 24, 2005.After graduating from the Lawrenceville School, he entered Princeton with our class but left after sophomore year. He remained...
Remsen Eyk Ten Schenck '34 *35
REM SCHENCK passed away Mar. 1, 1992, after a long illness. He roomed with Ernie May at the Grad College for one year and then worked at Merck Research for two years. He...
Edward Preston Scherer '32
Ed Scherer died July 24, 1996, a victim of Alzheimer's disease.After Princeton, Ed spent most of his life at Delray Beach, Fla. In 1935 he married Mildred Schoen. With a...
Albert E. Scherm Jr. '42
BUD DIED Mar. 14, 1994, at his apartment in Branford, Conn. He had lived in Branford, at Evergreen Woods, a lifecare center, for the past two years, where he had enjoyed...
Derick Doane Schermerhorn '53
Derick, one of 15 Hotchkiss grads who entered in 1949, died May 1, 2005, at his West Palm Beach home after a long and gallant fight against cancer.An English major, he...
Preben Scheutz '52
Preben died Nov. 13, 2006, in Denmark. At Princeton he worked as a waiter in Commons and played soccer. Preben had a long and impressive career as an architect in...
Carl Victor Schieren '34
CARL "LEFTY" SCHIEREN, retired president of the Carl V. Schieren Corp., died at Hilton Head Island Sept. 2, 1993, after a lengthy illness. According to a nearby...
Morton Schiff Jr. '27
Morton Schiff Jr. died in Sarasota, Fla., Mar. 29, 1997. Mort came to us from South Side School in Newark, N.J., and majored in economics. He roomed in Holder with...
Robert Schilling '47
Bob died tragically Feb. 18, 2012, in Henderson, Nev. After graduating from New Brunswick (N.J.) High School he entered Harvard but later transferred to Princeton. Bob...
Rudolph Edward Schirmer '41
Rudy died Nov. 19, 2000. A member of Terrace Club, he left Princeton at the end of his sophomore year to attend the Curtis Institute of Music, in Philadelphia, and...
James L. Schisgall '56
In the PAW of Jan. 24, 2001, Bill VandenHeuvel noted that Jim Schisgall's third illustrated children's book would soon be published. It is not surprising that Jim turned...
Richard M. Schisgall '53
ON APR. 19, 1991, the Class lost a devoted member when Dick Schisgall died of cancer.After high school in Great Neck, N.Y., Dick majored in biology as part of his premed...
Charles William Schlaitzer '23
CHARLES WAS born May 22, 1901, and entered Princeton from Erasmus H.S. in Brooklyn. At Princeton, he was involved in water polo, tennis, golf, and Whig Society. He was...
Henry T. Schlapp '38
Henry died Feb. 28, 2005, in St. Louis, Mo., after a brief illness.A lifelong resident of St. Louis, Henry prepared at the St. Louis Country Day School before attending...
George Schlegel III '32
George died Apr. 17, 2003. He prepared at Poly, and at Princeton he in Campus Club. After Princeton George worked at Schlegel Lithographing Corp. and in Mar. 1934...
Hans Gottfried Schleicher '38
Hans, or "Baldy," died in his sleep on Jan. 25, 2002, after a long battle with Parkinson's.He came to Princeton from Andover and Woodstock, N.Y., with John Faggi '39 and...
Cooper M. Schley Sr. '41
Cooper died May 27, 2011, in Nashville, Tenn., of complications from a fall. Coop was a graduate of Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va. He entered Princeton...
Kenneth Baker Schley '41
K.B. died Sept. 21, 2001. He had been ill and legally blind for more than 15 years. Although born in NYC, he grew up in Far Hills, N.J. He attended the Aiken Preparatory...
Richard Lancombe Schley Jr. '38
Dick died Sept. 25, 2003, in his native city of Savannah, Ga.After graduating from Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., he came to Princeton, which his relatives...
Gerhard Schmeisser '48
Marylander Dr. Gerry, a distinguished orthopedist, was one of six members of ’48 who graduated together in 1953 from Johns Hopkins Medical School. He came to...
Kennedy Brown Schmertz '47
OUR CLASSMATE Ken Schmertz passed away Sept. 6, 1992, in Washington, where he had lived off and on since 1958.Ken entered Princeton in 1946, after service as an infantry...
William F. Schmick Jr. '36
Bill died of heart failure June 25, 2004. He was 90.A graduate of Lawrenceville, Bill majored in political science at Princeton, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was...
Karl M. Schmid '32
Karl died peacefully Jan. 14, 2012. He was halfway through his 101st year. Karl was born in Chicago, where he attended Chicago Latin School. At Princeton he was a...
Carl Jacob Schmidlapp II '35
The third of four brothers to attend Princeton between 1932-38, Carl died Dec. 29, 1999, in Oyster Bay, N.Y., not far from his home on Centre Island. He was 87.Carl...
Adolph William Schmidt '26
The death of Dolph Schmidt concludes the career and life of one of our most noted members.After graduation he studied in France and Germany, winning honors. He then...
Arthur W. Schmidt Sr. '39
ART DIED Feb. 23, 1994, in Williamsburg, Va. where he had retired in 1981. His last four years had been hard as he went through ups and downs while recovering from a...
Frank M. Schmidt '65
Frank died Nov. 12, 2011, of melanoma. Frank came to Princeton from Riverside (N.J.) High School. At Princeton he majored in psychology, played trumpet in the Band, was...
Jonathan T. Schmidt *01
Jonathan Schmidt, a promising young attorney with an extensive record of community service, died Feb. 25, 2010, of prostate cancer. He was 36. Schmidt graduated from...
Roger Wilbur Schmidt '42
Roger, former financial adviser with New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., died peacefully Sept. 5, 2004, at home in Charlottesville, Va.An honors graduate of Phillips...
Ronald Dale Schmidt '53
Ron, who was born in Chicago and graduated from Wayland Academy in Wisconsin, died from complications of diabetes March 11, 2008, at his home in Novato,...
Thomas C. Schmidt '52
Tom died June 18, 2012, in Brunswick, Maine. Coming from Gilman School, he joined Charter Club and roomed with Guy Hollyday. In 1955 he earned a master’s degree from...
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...
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...
Arthur Christian Schmitt '40
This loyal Princetonian relished the years he had in retirement, enjoying his progeny's rowing competitions around the world, his lifelong interests in music, and his...
Gustav E. Schmitt '33
GUS SCHMITT, who had moved to Flagler Beach, Fla., some years ago, died there Oct. 19, 1990.Gus was born Nov. 25, 1911, in Passaic, NJ. He later moved to Ridgewood. He...
Joseph W. Schmitt '55
Only recently did the class receive word of Joe's death Aug. 18, 2006, in Glen Ellyn, Ill., his home these past 36 years. Joe was born in White Plains, N.Y., and came...
Michael A. Schmitt '58
Mike died of cardiac arrest March 15, 2004, at his home in Craftsbury Common, Vt.Born in St. Paul, Minn., he came to Princeton from St. Thomas Military Academy. He...
Herman Albert Schmitz '39
Herm died Sept. 10, 2007, at the Kindred Acute Care Center in Wayne, N.J. He suffered from Alzheimer's for a long time, but that did not keep him from all the normal...
George F. Schmucki '41
Our class president, George “Bud” Schmucki, died Aug. 2, 2010, from a fatal fall at his home in Morristown, N.J. Although Bud was born in Rochester, N.Y., he grew up in...
Keith Garrison Schnebly Jr. '51
Keith died March 21, 2005, in Richmond, Ky., following a prolonged illness during which he never lost his spirit and sense of humor.He prepared for Princeton at...
Frederick C. Schneider III '59
Fred died in his home in Pompano Beach, Fla., June 24, 2009. He had suffered from esophageal cancer and heart problems. A native of New Brunswick, N.J., and product of...
Henry Schneider III '37 *48
German language expert and lay preacher, Dutch Schneider died May 1, 1998, after a battle with lymphatic leukemia. He was buried in his reunion jacket. He left his wife...
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...
Stephen W. Schneiderman '56
Steve died from emphysema June 20, 2011. He lived in Wharton, N.J. Steve grew up in Lawrence, N.Y., and prepped at Woodmere, where he studied Latin with the poet and...
Walter J. Schob '26
WALT SCHOB, well known industrialist and civic leader, and ardent supporter of the Class of 1926, died Feb. 11, 1992, at age 88, of complications following surgery at...
William Crawford Schock '47
Bill "Humpy" Schock joined many Princeton-ians as a Navy V-12er in July 1943, and returned after overseas service in 1946. We remember him as a tennis star, top student,...
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...
Katherine Mary Schoeffler '80
Katherine Mary Schoeffler died Jan. 27, 2004, at Duke University Medical Center from a ruptured aorta. She was 44. Kathy was born March 10, 1959, the daughter of...
J. Fred Schoellkopf Jr. '30
FRED DIED Oct. 26, 1993. He was born Jan. 14, 1909 in Dallas, the son of J. Fred Schoellkopf and Bess Wilson. His father, who graduated from the Pennsylvania Military...
Arthur B. Schoen Jr. '75
Artie lost his battle with cancer Dec. 24, 2005.Artie was born in New York and came to Princeton from the Buckley School and St. Paul's. He majored in history. His...
Edward B. Schoen '56
ED SCHOEN died on Aug. 19, 1989, in N.Y.C., where he lived all his life. He is remembered by all who knew him with deep affection, respect, and admiration. Ed, a...
Erwin F. Schoenbrunn '44
Erwin died Jan. 18, 2005, at home in Ridgefield, Conn., after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 83.Raised in New Jersey, he attended Plainfield High School and...
Carlyn Lynch Eileen Schoenfelder '75
Carlyn died in an automobile accident on Dec. 26, 2000, in Germany. She was 47.Carlyn was born in NYC and was a graduate of the Chapin School. An architecture major at...
William W. Schoening '65
Bill died of heart failure Nov. 5, 2011. He came to us from John Burroughs School St. Louis, where he was active football, basketball, and track. He majored...
Ferdinand Schoettle Jr. '55
Memorialize Andy Schoettle in 200 words? No way. Some details here, more to be found on the class website (www.princeton55.org). Born Aug. 17, 1933, the son of...
Harry J. Schoettle '51
Harry died in Ft. Lauderdale June 23, 1996. He and Jackie lived there, but their roots were embedded in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains.Harry served four years in the...
Alan Schofield '47
Alan Schofield died Feb. 6, 1997, at his home in Macclesfield, England, after a long illness.Alan was born and raised in England but came to America in 1940 with his...
Clinton A. Schofield '31
CLINT DIED Dec. 4, 1992, in New Haven, Conn. He was born in Schenectady, and prepared at Princeton Preparatory School. He was on the Class football team, and was a...
G. Arthur Scholes '33
ART SCHOLES died on June 30, 1989, at Point Pleasant (N.J.) Hospital. A funeral Mass was celebrated at the Church of the Epiphany, in Brick, N.J.Art was born on Oct. 5,...
Robert H. Scholl '22
Robert H. Scholl, our beloved, esteemed president, died peacefully in his apartment at Cathedral Village in Philadelphia on Feb. 9, 1998. He was 97.Bob graduated from...
Harry James Schonblom '33
Jim Schonblom died May 20, 1995, in Bradford, Penn.He came to Princeton by way of Lawrenceville. After graduation he spent 15 years with Kendally Refining Co. As a...
Norton Onayne R Schonfeld '35
Nort died in Silver Spring, Md., July 17, 2002.He spent his freshman year of college at Notre Dame, then transferred to Princeton, where he majored in politics and...
Richard Harold Schoolmaster '42
Dick died at home in Montclair, N.J., on May 1, 1996, after a heroic battle with cancer. He devoted his entire career to the ministry and was retired at the time of his...
John David Schopp *54
JOHN DAVID SCHOPP 54, professor of astronomy at San Diego State Univ., died Nov. 9, 1988, at KaiserPermanente Hospital. He had sustained a severe heart attack and had...
Edward C. Schott '50
Ed died peacefully Feb. 13, 2008, after a lengthy illness, at his home in Akron, Ohio. In his obituary, Ed was described as a man with "zest for life with a keen...
Ward C. Schott '50
Ed died peacefully Feb. 13, 2008, after a lengthy illness, at his home in Akron, Ohio. In his obituary, Ed was described as a man with “zest for life with a keen...
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...
Oded Schramm *90
Oded Schramm, a brilliant theoretical mathematician and avid hiker, fell to his death Sept. 1, 2008, while solo climbing Guye Peak Washington State. He was 46. Born...
Cyrus Bryson Schreiner '35
Cyrus Schreiner, also known to us as “C.B.,” “Cy,” and “Bryce,” died Jan. 7, 2010, in Upper St. Clair, Pa. Born in Lebanon, Pa., he came to Princeton from...
Frank C. Schroeder Jr. '32
Frank Schroeder of Sewickley, Pa., died Dec. 16, 2005. He was 94.Frank attended Sewickley Academy, Philips Andover Academy, and Princeton, leaving at the end of his...
Jay Nevin Schroeder '20
JAY NEVIN SCHROEDER died June 16, 1990, in the Lancaster General Hospital. He had lost his first wife, Caroline Steinman, but is survived by his second wife, Katrina...
John T. Schroeder '92
John died Sept. 11, 2001, in NYC in the attack on the World Trade Center. He was Nasdaq trader at Fred Alger Management, position he had held only for few months,...
Walter George Schroeder '61
Walt died Dec. 10, 2006, in Tampa, Fla., where he had lived since 1973. He battled diabetes for many years, but we do not know the specific cause of his death. Born in...
William Emerson Schroeder '34
Bill Schroeder, retired head of Schroeder Bros., manufacturers of mining and hydraulic equipment in McKees Rocks, Pa., died last May after a short bout with cancer. He...
James A. Schuck '57
Jim died June 29, 2005, in Boise, Idaho.He was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Corning, N.Y. At Princeton, Jim majored in geological engineering, joined Court Club,...
Charles R. Schueler '44
After a long bout with leukemia, Dick died on Feb. 4, 2000, at home in Chestnut Hill, Mass.He came to Princeton from Andover and was capt. of the freshman lacrosse team,...
John Mchenry Schuler '49 *52
JOHN SCHULER passed away at his home in Issaquah, Wash., June 23, 1990, a victim of heart disease.John was born may 5, 1928 in Teheran, Iran, the son of a foreign...
Karl William Schullinger '24
KARL SCHULLINGER died on Oct. 25, 1989. He prepared at Lawrenceville. He was engaged in radio production and advertising throughout his business career. He was initially...
Frederick H. Schultz '51
(Note: The following is an expanded version of a memorial published in the Dec. 8, 2010, issue of PAW.) Fred was born Jan. 16, 1929, in Jacksonville, Fla., and...
Carl William Schulz '28
CARL DIED Dec. 12, 1992, at Wilmette, Ill. He prepared at Lawrenceville. At Princeton, he was on the fencing team and was a member of Gateway Club. He left Princeton in...
John E. Schulz '61
John died May 9, 2004, of complications from ALS. Born in Evanston, Ill., to Carl Schulz '28 and the former Cornelia Mary Ernst, he came to Princeton from New Trier High...
Otto Frederick Schulz '23
OUR OTTO departed this troubled world June 17, 1992, from a vital, productive, and interesting life. He was born in Chicago on Oct. 18, 1902, the son of' a piano maker....
Earl John Schulze '54
EARL DIED Nov. 21, 1990, after four years of fighting leukemia, in Ann Arbor, Mich., where he was prof. of English at the university. Coming to Princeton from Carl...
Frederick R. Schumacher '52
Fred died May 29, 2010, in Santa Ana, Calif., after a long struggle with cancer. At Princeton he distinguished himself in NROTC, as captain of the nationally...
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...
Hans Otto Schundler '35
Otto Schundler died Nov. 28, 1996, of heart problems. He was 83. He and Gertrud, his wife of 54 years, had recently moved from Westfield to Fellowship Village, a...
James Ross Schuyler '44 *48
Doc, a longtime resident of Ewing, N.J., died June 2, 2003, in Riverside, Calif., his home for the past 10 years.A graduate of Mercersburg Academy, he first roomed with...
Harry Donald Schwaab '33
Don died June 26, 1997, after a long illness. He was a lifetime resident of Baltimore, and came to Princeton from Gilman with a good number of our classmates. At...
Elizabeth Dodge Schwab '94
Elizabeth, who battled cancer while graduating with honors from law school and then joined one of the nation's foremost law firms, died July 30, 2005. She was 33.Doctors...
JOHN. R. SCHWAB '55
John died Oct. 14, 2007, at home in Forest Hills, N.Y. At the time of our 25th reunion, John wrote with well-deserved pride of his arduous professional journey from...
Louis Schwab '41
Lou died Aug. 8, 2007. A native of Cincinnati, he graduated from the Walnut Hills School. At Princeton, Lou majored in chemistry and graduated with honors. A member of...
Bert D. Schwartz *48
Bert Schwartz, who was a prime factor in creating the first professional school of psychology in New Jersey, died after a long illness July 9, 2009. He was...
Harry H. Schwartz '37
SEASONED DIPLOMAT of the Foreign Service and Department of State, and sailor, Harry Schwartz died of pneumonia Feb. 15, 1991, leaving his widow, Maria; four sons; a...
Henry Gerard Schwartz '28
Henry Schwartz, one of the most distinguished members of the class, died of emphysema Dec. 24, 1998, in St. Louis. He was 89.Dr. Schwartz was born in New York City and...
Peter Aston Schwartz '36
Peter died Aug. 8, 2002, at the Princeton Medical Center. He was 89. He prepared at the Montgomery School in Wynnwood, Pa. At Princeton he majored in English and was a...
Richard Teophile Schwartz '26
It was only recently that we learned of Richard's death on Jan. 14, 1997.He retired as a consulting actuary. He was also a former employee of N.Y. Life Insurance Co.,...
Peter Schwed '32
Peter, a former editorial chairman and trade books publisher at Simon & Schuster and an author in his own right, died July 31, 2003. He was 92.Peter began his career at...
Raymond Joseph Schweizer '40
"An extraordinary teacher, who enriched many lives," was the description of Ray given by the San Francisco Chronicle upon his death Feb. 15, 2006.Ray prepared at St....
Walter G. Schwenk '57
Wally died Nov. 4, 2003, after a battle with disease that began in 1992.He was born in Cleveland and graduated from the Pomfret School before attending Princeton. He...
Ernest G. Schwiebert Jr. *66
Ernest Schwiebert, architect and piscatory expert, died of renal cancer Dec. 10, 2005 in Princeton, N.J. He was 74.Schwiebert spent his childhood in the Midwest,...
Ernest G. Schwiebert Jr. *66
Ernest Schwiebert, architect and piscatory expert, died of renal cancer Dec. 10, 2005 in Princeton, N.J. He was 74.Schwiebert spent his childhood in the Midwest,...
Louis A. Scinta '37
Bull Scinta, whose "principal occupation since college consisted of my going to medical school and practicing medicine, with some golf whenever the opportunity...
Herbert Van Doane Sciver '38 *39
Herb died Aug. 31, 2001, at Bryn Mawr Terrace nursing home outside Philadelphia. He prepared at Trenton [N.J.] H.S. At Princeton he majored in electrical engineering,...
John Hibben Grier Scoon '38
John Scoon, grandson of Princeton's 14th president, John G. Hibben, and son of Robert M. Scoon, chairman of the philosophy dept. in our day, died Apr. 4, 1995, of...
A. Thornton Scott '29
THORNTON DIED Feb. 6, 1993. After Princeton, he graduated from Cornell Medical College and prac6ced at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals. He moved to...
Alexander Scott '92
ON JULY 30, 1992, Zander Scott died in a plane crash in Alaska, along with his close friend Monty Raiser. They were in a small plane on the first leg of the trip home...
Arthur L. Scott '37
Ardent Princetonian, teacher, singer, world traveler, and Mark Twain expert, Art Scott died Sept. 26, 1998, after suffering from multi-infarct dementia for several...
D. Haven Scott '36
Haven died Feb. 15, 2002, in Citra, Fla.; he was 88. He prepared at the Haverford School. At Princeton he majored in philosophy, was in the band, and was a member of...
David Janvier Scott '45
DAVID DIED Mar. 28, 1991, following heart surgery at the hospital of the Univ. of Pennsylvania. He had recently made his home in Bucks County, Penn. He was 68.David came...
Grant E. Scott Jr. '44
Grant and his wife, Marion, died Nov. 27, 2001, when their single-engine plane crashed outside Evansville, Ind. Grant had refueled there on his way home to Olean, N.Y.,...
Hugh Nevin Scott '50
Hugh Scott died Dec. 23, 1998, after a valiant sixmonth battle with lung cancer. He joined the with 20 others from Deerfield, where he was very much a leader:...
Ivan Scott '58
Ivan Scott, whom we knew as Ivan Strakhovsky, died March 10, 2008, of a brain tumor in Washington, D.C. He was 78. Ivan came to us from the Hun School after serving...
John Carlyle Scott '56
"On top of technology in old-fashioned practice." That's how the obituary headline in the Seattle Times referred to our physician classmate John Scott, who died of...
John Edwin Scott '27
John Edwin Scott died of pneumonia Mar. 6, 1997, in Riverview Hospital of Red Bank, N.J. Coming to us from Curtis H.S. on Staten Island, Scotty was a member of Dial...
John L. Scott '41
Scotty died Feb. 28, 2012, in Santa Barbara, Calif. Known to his family as “a quintessential gentleman of the greatest generation,” he prepared at Exeter before...
John M. Scott '47
Jack died Oct. 12, 2009, in Preveza, Greece, where he had taken up residence in 2002. World War II and the Air Force interrupted his Princeton studies. He was...
Robert Crawford Scott Jr. '33
Bob Scott died in Grass Valley, Calif., Jan. 5, 2002. He was 88.He attended the Asheville School for Boys. He dropped out of Princeton after two years and transferred to...
Ronald L. Scott '55
Ronald L. Scott died July 16, 1997, of an aortic aneurysm at his home in Garrison, N.Y. A native of Lowell, Mass., he came to Princeton from Lowell H.S., where he was...
Samuel Sumney Scott '26
Sam Scott died at his home in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Jan. 29, 1997. He was 91.Sam came to Princeton from Montclair Academy, where he had taken part in most of the...
Walter B. Scott Jr. *36
WALTER B. SCOTT JR., a professor at Northwestern Univ., Evanston, Ill., died on Mar. 13, 1980, He earned his bachelor's degree from Lafayette College, Easton, Penn., in...
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...
William Wallace Scott '41
Bill died in St. Louis on Nov. 29, 1999, at Missouri Baptist Center after a brief illness.He went to Mercersburg and majored in chemistry at Princeton. Bill was a member...
Oren Scotten '39
Oren died Feb. 17, 2007, in New York, where he had long lived and worked. He served as captain in the Air Corps from 1942 to 1945, attached to Air...
Samuel B. Scovil '37
Sam died on Apr. 7, 2002, at the age of 86, at Rose Haven, in Litchfield, Conn. He came to Princeton from Morristown HS and majored in economics. He served during WWII...
William M. Scranton '42
Bill Scranton died Oct. 4, 2011, in Keene, N.H., after years of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Bill was born in Scranton, Pa., and graduated from Scranton Central...
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...
F. Jay Scribner '67
Jay Scribner, an insurance executive with Guaranty Co. of North America, died in his sleep April 7, 2009, at home in Williams Township, Pa. Born in Stamford, Conn., Jay...
Richard B. Scudder '35
We lost Dick July 11, 2012, when he died at his home in Navesink, N.J. He was born in Newark and was descended from a signer of the Articles of Confederation. At...
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,...
John Sullivan Scully III '34
Johnny Scully, of Winchester, Va., died Sept, 25, 2003. He was the former president of Winchester Cold Storage Co., which he once described as "primarily an apple house,...
John W. Scully '52
John, whose father, John, was in the Class 1917, came to us from Trinity School in New York. He joined Cap and Gown and was race committee chairman and commodore...
Peter D. Scully '50
Peter died Dec. 16, 2012, at his Dwight, Ill., home. His life was dedicated to progressive and careful farm management. Born in London, he lived his early life in...
Thomas G. Scully '35
Tom Scully, a prominent lawyer and resident of Winchester, Va., died Mar. 4, 1996, of lung cancer. was 83. Tom was a widower, his wife, Bennie, having died in 1983....
John Martin Seabrook '39
Jack died Feb. 11, 2009, at his home in Aiken, S.C. An endlessly energetic creative man, Jack began his career right after graduation in the business his father...
Jarrett L. Seaman '59
Jerry died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Dec. 21, 2008, at the University of North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Jerry graduated from Franklin High School in Cedar...
Leonard Searle *56
Leonard Searle, an astronomer and retired director of the Carnegie Observatories of the Carnegie Institution, died July 2, 2010. He was 79. Searle was...
John Romney Searles Jr. '34
John Searles, who as head of the Washington, D.C., Redevelopment Land Agency spent, in his words, "10 exciting years (1951 to 1961) as we transformed 500 acres in...
Robert Lippincott Searles '40
Bob, of Waysata, Minn., and Boca Grande, Fla., died May 26, 2004, in Venice, Fla., of complications from cancer.The Star Tribune noted that "this former Minnesota...
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...
Robert Eugene Sears '44
Bob came to Princeton from South Pasadena (CA) H.S., where he was active in baseball and student government. He studied engineering at Princeton, serving with the...
John S. Sease '69
died June 29, 2007, near Trier, Germany, after a yearlong struggle with cancer. After Verde Valley School in Sedona, Ariz., and his freshman year at Berkeley,...
John William Sease '41
John died on Nov. 12. After attending Rutgers Preparatory School, he came to Princeton and immediately immersed himself in the chemistry department, earning Sigma XI,...
George L. Seay *73
George L. Seay, who had the longest tenure of any staff member of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., died May 12, 2009. He was...
Orvel Sebring '26
Orvel died on Dec. 20, 1999, of Parkinson's disease. He was born June 24, 1905.Though a resident of Pennsylvania since 1933, Orvel considered Florida, where his father...
Stephen Stanley Sechrist II '39
Steve died Jan. 22, 2008, at his home in York, Pa., following a brief illness. After college Steve joined the Red Lion Cabinet Co., a family business that manufactured...
James F. Sechrist '44
Jim died in his hometown of York, Pa., on Nov. 24, 1999. He and Virginia had celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Sept. 11.Jim prepared at the Hill School. At...
Albert Seckel Jr. '37
Al died Jan. 10, 2004, at his home in Boynton Beach, Fla.He graduated from the Chicago Latin School and majored in engineering at Princeton, where his father was Class...
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...
John Ernest Sedlmayr '38
BUD SEDLMAYR, an airline captain with Eastern Airlines, from 1941 to 1976, passed away Dec 30, 1991. was buried from All Saints Episcopal Church in Great Neck, N.Y....
Joseph Melville See Jr. '60
On March 19, 2000, Mel See died in Arizona. He was 62.At Princeton, he majored in geology and joined Tiger Inn. He also played varsity 150 lb. football and was a varsity...
Alfred Richard Seebass III '58 *61
Dick died Nov. 14, 2000, in Boulder, Colo., after a short illness resulting from complications related to pneumonia. He came to Princeton from Colorado, earned his BSE...
Stanley J. Seeger Jr. '52 *56
Stanley died June 24, 2011, at his home in London. Born in Milwaukee, he majored in music, was awarded the Alfred Noyes Prize in Poetry, and was active with the Chapel...
John Lee Seeley '56
John Seeley died Apr. 5, 1996, in Phoenix, Ariz. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, and came to Princeton in the fall of 1953 from Eton College. His father, Paul S....
Samuel Warren Seeman '44
Sam, a longtime resident of Wallingford, Pa., died Oct. 19, 2007, in Maryland. He was 84. Born in St. Louis, he chose Princeton over Penn and Harvard because we offered...
Suzanne Wetzel Seemann '94
Our classmate Suzie Wetzel Seemann was struck and killed by a car while on a morning run with friends Sept. 27, 2012. Suzie grew up in Neptune and Little Silver, N.J.,...
Irving E. Segal '37
A brilliant mathematician whose work had applications in quantum mechanics and astrophysics, Irving Segal died Aug. 30, 1998. He was 79. He is survived by his wife, Dr....
Stanton Segal '48
Stanton died April 16, 2007. He was a distinguished member of the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania for 41 years. He established...
Richard L. Seggel '36 *38
Dick died May 18, 2005. He was 91.He prepared at the Peddie School. At Princeton he received a bachelor's in history and a master's in political science. After...
Harry A. G. Seggerman '49
Harry died May 19, 2001. He was 73. Harry came to Princeton from St Paul's. At Princeton he majored in English, and was a member of Quadrangle Club. He was a former...
Kenneth M. Seggerman Jr. '47
Kenneth Seggerman died in New York, N.Y., Feb. 27, 1997, from complications after surgery.Ken came to Princeton in the summer of 1943 from Lawrenceville. Later that year...
Joseph Weston Segura '61
Joe Segura lost his battle with mesothelioma, a form of cancer, May 23, 2006, at his home in Rochester, Minn. Born in Little Rock, Ark., in 1940, he grew up in...
Frank A. Seiberling '31
Frank died, Jan. 24, after a brief illness. He lived in North Liberty, Ia., a suburb of Iowa City. Professionally, Frank was a distinguished art historian. The youngest...
James H. Seibert Jr. '52
JAMES H. SEIBERT died of cancer Oct. 19, 1992. A geology major at Princeton, Jim did graduate work at Penn State, rooming with P.U. classmate John Emery, before...
John Emery Seibert '34
Lank Seibert, a retired oil executive, banking consultant, and star basketball player, died Mar. 4, 1997, after a long illness. A classmate said of him, "Lank was a...
William Lincoln Seibert '28
William Seibert died July 8, 1999, in Charlottesville, Va. After graduating from Princeton, he earned a law degree from Fordham U. Law School, and joined the firm of...
William Lincoln Seibert '28
William died July 8, 1999, in Charlottesville, Va. After graduation from Princeton, he earned a law degree from Fordham law school, and joined the firm of...
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...
Stephen Erwin Seidel '52
While regaining his strength after a mild heart attack, Stephen "Steph" Seidel died peacefully at his home in Nashotah, Wis., July 18, 2003.Steph spent much of his life...
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...
Miles P.H. Seifert '57
Our class, the University, and many others who either knew or were touched by him lost dear friend with the death of Miles Parr Haszard Seifert on Oct. 3, 2003, after...
Frederick Seitz *34
Frederick Seitz, a distinguished physicist and president emeritus of Rockefeller University, died March 2, 2008. He was 96. Seitz received a bachelor’s...
Louis Lauther Seivard '41
Lou died Feb. 22, 2010, in Baltimore, Md. A graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School in Elizabeth, N.J., he majored in chemical engineering at Princeton, where he was...
John Henderson Selby '41
As the San Francisco Chronicle reported, "Jack Selby, joke teller, golfer, Navy pilot, and longtime Bay resident, died peacefully at home at 84" on Nov. 25, 2003. He was...
Edwin Dusen Van Selden Jr. '27
ED DIED July 26, 1992. "The Baron," as his many friends called him, grew up in Oil City, in a western Pennsylvania region where the name of Princeton had long been...
William K. Selden '34
(Following is an expanded version of a memorial published in the Nov. 18, 2009, issue of PAW.) Bill Selden died Sept. 21, 2009, at Pennswood Village in Newtown, Pa.,...
Robert D. Sellers Jr. '50
Bob died Oct. 24, 2009, in a North Carolina retirement center. He graduated from Woodberry Forest. At Princeton, Bob was a four-year varsity wrestler, winner of the...
William Sellers '23
William Sellers passed away Jan. 14, 1995, in Newtown Square, Penn.William attended the Delancey and Haverford schools before enrolling at Princeton. After Princeton, he...
Perry Kimball Sellon '34
PERRY (PETE) SELLON died April 23, 1990, after a long and persistent illness. He had been associate director of the international staff at U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT,...
Arthur M. Sells II '50
Art died during a business trip Oct. 22, 2004. Born in Milwaukee, he graduated from Mercersburg Academy. At Princeton, Art belonged to Key and Seal and majored in...
John McLane Selover '53
John, who achieved his goal of following his father, Howard R. ’18, and brother, George H. ’51, to Princeton, died in his native city of Minneapolis of chronic...
James Hustead Semans '32
Jim died April 21, 2005.He prepared at the Lawrenceville School. At Princeton, Jim was a member of the Glee Club, orchestra, and Cannon Club. Freshman year he roomed...
John Edward Semmes Jr. '39
Jack died Oct. 7, 2008, at his home on Hilton Head Island, S.C. After graduation, Jack joined the Marine Corps in 1940 and served in the Pacific theater for three...
Raphael Semmes '44
"Rock" Semmes died July 6, 2007, of kidney cancer in his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 86. Only six weeks earlier he was enjoying two sets of tennis a week and a round...
David Campbell Semonite '51
Dave died of cancer Nov. 17, 2002. Born and raised in Cranford, N.J., he came to Princeton from Cranford HS. He was in the ROTC, majored in basic engineering, was a...
Jackson Penrose Serfas '34
Jack Serfas, a prolific writer of letters to the editor of several papers including The New York Times, died Aug. 4, 2005, it recently was learned. He was 94 and...
David Moist Serotkin '60
DAVID MOIST SEROTKIN, at the age of 54, died Jan. 11, 1993, at his home in Mason, Mich. He is survived by a son, David; his mother, Dorothea; two sisters, Nancy and...
William Spencer Service Jr. '52
BILL DIED Nov. 24, 1990, in Durham, N.C. He had fought a twoyear battle against cancer with courage, stoicism, and an unsurpassed sense of humor, all of which inspired...
Craig Severance '36
AT 76, CRAIG died of a stroke July 5, 1991. He had homes at Rumson, NJ., and Jamaica, Vt. He prepared at the Newman School and at Philipps Exeter Academy.At Princeton he...
William H. Sewell '47
BILL DIED May 9, 1993. With his death our class lost one of its most renowned members.After V12 and graduation from Princeton, Bill entered the Yale School of Medicine....
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...
Francis Seyfarth '36
Frank died Apr. 30, 1999, of Parkinson's disease, after a long illness. He was 85. Until he was no longer able, he worked with support groups helping others so...
Jacob Frederick Seyfarth '33
Fred Seyfarth died Nov. 3, 1995, after having been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor early in the summer. He lived in Whiting, N.J.Fred was born in NYC, but his...
Robert Seyfarth '36
Bob died peacefully April 3, 2009, at his home in Fairlawn, a retirement community in Sykesville, Md. Bob joined us in our sophomore year. His brother, Frank, now...
Peter Seyffurt '40
Pete died of Parkinson's disease May 11, 2003, in Santa Barbara. He attended school in Switzerland and France before preparing at Woodbury Forest School in Virginia.He...
Harold Hawley Seymour '39
HICKEY DIED Dec. 3, 1991, at his home in Montour Falls, N.Y. He had retired in 1977, but with no idea of leaving a countryside he loved. He stayed on in Montour Falls in...
Walter Seymour Jr. '38
"Bill" died Aug. 18, 1999, of Alzheimer's at the age of 87. He prepared at The Hun School. At Princeton, he majored in economics and was a member of Dial Lodge.Before...
C. Boyd Shaffer *41
Charles Shaffer, the retired director of toxicology at American Cyanamid Corp., died Oct. 4, 2011. He was 94. Shaffer graduated in 1938 from Lebanon Valley College, and...
Clarence "Clair" Shaffer '22
Clarence "Clair" Shaffer died May 29, 1999, at his home in Winter Park, Fla., after a lengthy period of declining health. He was 104.After he graduated from Princeton,...
Charles Edward Shain '36 *49
Charlie died Apr. 13, 2003; he was 87.At Princeton he majored in English, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was a member of Elm Club. Besides his BA, he received...
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...
James Shand '48
Jim Shand was elected captain of the swimming team as a sophomore and went on to be national intercollegiate backstroke champion. The medley relay team set a U.S....
James Shand Jr. '74
Our classmate James Shand succumbed to a long illness Nov. 17, 2009. All who knew “Shad Roe” will never forget his infectious laugh, his love of friends and good...
Thomas Marshall Shand '44
Tom died Dec. 7, 2003, in Lancaster, Pa., where he lived all his life.He prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy and followed his brother, William Jr. '40, and uncle James...
Adam Fry Shaner II '44
AD DIED May 26, 1991, in Easton, Penn. He was one of a number who withdrew from Princeton at the end of his sophomore year and chose not to maintain contact with our...
Anthony Graham Shanley '50
Our youngest class member, “Doc” Shanley, died March 30, 2009, in Malaga, Spain. Coming to Princeton from Canterbury School, Doc threw himself into work on The Daily...
J. Lyndon Shanley '32 *37
The class lost another eminent professor when Lyn Shanley died Oct. 22, 1996, at the Wagner Health Center in Evanston, Ill., after a long illness.Having received both...
John Kelly Henry Shannahan IV '34
Jack died July 2, 2002, after years of failing health. Since his retirement after 41 years in the electric utility business, he lived in the Leelanau County peninsula in...
A. Vernon Shannon '26
SHANNON died Jan. 1, 1992, at age 87, after years of a brave struggle against afflictions which included a severe, lasting case of shingles and a close call with an...
James Menzies Shannon '45
Jim Shannon died Dec. 13, 2003.Jim prepared at Woodberry Forest, following brother Phil '41, now deceased, to Prince-ton. Jim joined Campus Club and received his degree...
Earl W. Shapiro '61
Earl died May 26, 2008, while traveling and after a brief illness. He was a longtime resident of Hyde Park in Chicago. At Princeton Earl attended the Woodrow Wilson...
Robert Poindexter Sharkey '48
Bob Sharkey, retired George Washington U. economic history professor and history department chairman, died of cardiac arrest Sept. 19, 1998, at his home in Washington,...
Albert Boyd Sharp '39
Al died Jan. 19, 1995, in Sarasota where he and his wife, Mary, had lived for the past nine years following his retirement from a lifetime law practice in Haddonfield,...
Dudley C. Sharp Jr. '52
Dudley Sharp died of cancer in Houston May 14, 2003. He was one of the best known and well-liked students in the class of 1952.He started things off during freshman week...
Thomas Farrell Sharp '58
In 1954 Tom Sharp came east from Tulsa, not knowing exactly where Princeton was.He leavened the Princeton community with selfconscious southwesternism, reminding us that...
George Francis Shaskan Jr. '39
George died Feb. 5, 2009, at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He had been fighting a staph infection he contracted while in the hospital for successful hip surgery. After...
Stanley H. Shaughnessy '60
Stan, of St. Michaels, Md., died Sept. 4, 2004, after battling brain cancer for nearly a year.Known to his classmates as "Shag," he came to Princeton from Tarrytown,...
Robert W. Shavelson '54
Bob Shavelson died June 8, 2009, at home in Margate City, N.J., surrounded by his family. Born in Philadelphia, Bob grew up in Absecon, N.J., and graduated from...
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...
Henry L. Shaw '35
Hank died peacefully April 15, 2009, at his home in Lancaster, Pa., after a lengthy illness. Born in Trenton, Hank graduated from Princeton High School. He lived in...
Judith Selverstone Shaw '74
Judy died of cancer Dec. 27, 2004, in Boston.Judy entered Princeton in 1969 with the first class of women, the Class of '73. She took a year off between junior and...
Roland Clark Shaw '42
Rollo Shaw, 82, a founder of Great Britain's independent oil industry, died Dec. 19, 2003, at his home near LondonRollo left Princeton in 1941 to complete 73 missions as...
Ross Campbell Shaw '42
ROSS DIED June 12, 1990, at his home in Port St. Lucie, Fla., where he had lived since 1981. At the time of his death, which culminated a fiveyear struggle with...
Thomas N.F. Shaw '47
Tom returned to Old Nassau in 1946 after three years in the Army, including service in the Burma-China theater. His rewarding Princeton education (completed in 1949),...
Peter Lane Shea '55
Peter Shea died Aug. 9, 1997, of a heart attack at his summer home in Northeast Harbor, Maine.A native of Locust Valley, N.Y., Peter came to Princeton from Phillips...
Thomas R. Shearer Jr. '58
Tom died Oct. 23, 2010, at home, surrounded by his family. He had suffered from Parkinson’s disease for 18 years. He graduated from Scarsdale (N.Y.) High School. At...
John Warren Sheble '51
Jack was born May 5, 1930, prepared at Germantown (Pa.) Academy. At Princeton, he was a member of Cannon Club the American Society of Mechan- ical Engineers,...
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...
Donald B. Shedden '52
Don died Feb. 5, 2012, Waverly, N.Y. Born Sayre, Pa., he attended Sayre High School and graduated from Mercersburg Academy before attending Princeton. He served...
William Sykes Shee '41
Bill died March 30, 2010. A longtime resident of Woodbridge, Conn., he and his wife, Winetta (“Bebe”), had moved to Evergreen Woods in North Branford, Conn., in 1999. ...
Clayton Maurice Sheedy '51
Clayt died Nov. 14, 2000, from complications from surgery the previous May. At Princeton he majored in history, was a member of Tiger Inn, a manager of the Student...
Fadlou A. Shehadi *59
Fadlou Shehadi, Rutgers professor of philosophy emeritus and a professional singer, died at home in Princeton Feb. 29, 2012, from congestive heart failure. He was...
Edward W. Sheldon II '44
Edward Sheldon died on June 14, 1997, at West Park Hospital Cody, Wyo. He was 74.He prepared at Lawrenceville and left Princeton 1941 for civilian pilot training...
Robert W. Shell '41
Bob died Dec. 3, 2001. A graduate of Asheville (N.C.) School, he left Princeton at the end of sophomore year. We lost touch with Bob until the publication of our...
William Chastain Shelton '36
Bill, 83, died Nov. 1, 1999 of heart failure in Miami. At Princeton, he majored in mathematics, graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and was a member of Court Club.He began his 40...
Charles C. Shenk '30
CHICK SHENK died Mar. 10, 1992, in the Western Reserve Convalescent Horne, in Erie, Penn. He was born in Erie and spent most of his life there. Chick and his twin...
Wilbur Jay Shenk Jr. '41
Bill died Dec. 27, 2012. He was a resident of Bentley Village in Naples, Fla. Among his relatives who attended Princeton were Wilbur Shenk ’28, Charles Shenk ’30,...
James G. Shennan '32
The class lost an outstanding member when Jim Shennan died May 24, 1997, at the Presbyterian Home in Evanston, Ill.Jim was an esteemed leader all his active life. At...
William B. Shepard '37
Bill Shepard died June 17, 1995, leaving his wife, Mary, whom he married in Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., in 1944 before going overseas; three sons, Bill Jr., Richard, and...
Robert M. Shepardson Jr. '59
BOB SHEPARDSON died of cancer on Aug. 17, 1989, in Basking Ridge, N.J., after a year-long illness. A lifelong resident of New Jersey, Bob was an internist with his own...
George Woodthorp Shepherd Jr. '39 *40
George died suddenly Jan. 30, 2007, at a hospital near his home in Fair Lawn, N.J. After graduating with a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering, George...
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...
George Edwin Sheppard '45
George "Gerry" Sheppard died Sept. 15, 1996, in Laurens, S.C. Although born in Houston, George was virtually a lifelong resident of Laurens. He prepared for Princeton at...
Merrill Davis Sheppard '30
MERRILL'S DEATH on Oct. 13, 1991, in the Holiday City section of Tom's River, N.J., Was a Surprise, although his recent medical history indicates it had to be expected....
Ronald Fitz-Randolph Sheppard '39
After nearly two years of struggle against the effects of a stroke suffered in 1994, Ron died Feb. 21, 1996, at Cincinnati's Drake Special Care Institute. It was a sad...
Gerald Sheridan '47
The class lost a good friend when Gerry died Oct. 15, 2011. Gerry enlisted in the Navy in 1943, and during World War II served on a destroyer in the North Atlantic. In...
Henry H. Sherk '52
Henry died of cancer at his Philadelphia home April 9, 2012. A New Jersey native and the son and grandson of physicians, he graduated from Episcopal Academy, having...
Swager Sherley Jr. '37
Swag died Jan. 29, 2007, at the home of his daughter, Mary Beth Fenimore, in Wilmington, Del. He was born in Louisville, Ky., and attended Episcopal High School in...
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...
Michael Sherman '45
Michael died of prostate cancer at his home in Princeton on Dec. 6, 1999. Born and raised in Manhattan, Michael attended St. Bernard's School and entered Princeton from...
William Snyder Sherman '41
Bill died Sept. 12, 2001, after a long illness. A native of Albany, N.Y., he preppred Andover. At Princeton, Bill roomed with Al Van Court, but then left after one year....
William Snyder Sherman '41
Bill died Sept.12, 2002, after a long illness. A native of Albany, N.Y., he attended the Albany Academy and graduated from Andover in 1937.Freshman year he roomed with...
John J.F. Sherrerd '52
Jay Sherrerd died April 9, 2008, one month after his 78th birthday and 19 months after beginning a spirited and courageous battle with brain cancer. Jay attended...
Avery Sherry '27
THE CLASS LOST one of its most colorful members when Ave Sherry died of complications of age on No, 12, 1992, in Mequon, Wisc.Born on Apt. 3, 1904, in Milwaukee, he came...
Laurence Edgar Sherwood '37
Busy extracurricular operator and lawyer Larry Sherwood died Apr. 10, 1997. Bunnie, his wife of nearly 55 years, survives him, as do daughters Carolyn and Susan and four...
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...
Amedee Cole Benoist Shields '34
AMEDEE SHIELDS, as announced in the summer newsletter, died of cancer June 20, 1992. He worked for a variety of companies in St. Louis, including among others, Monsanto;...
George H. Shields III '31
George was born Feb. 7, 1910, in St. Louis, Mo., and died Jan. 20, 2001. He prepared at the St. Louis Country Day School and the Kent School. At Princeton he became...
James Culver Shields II '38
JIM SHIELDS, consulting geologist and mining engineer, died Jan. 10, 1992, of cancer. He retired several years ago and moved from Palos Verdes, near Los Angeles, to a...
Edward M. Shimamoto '59
Ed died of lung cancer on Feb. 21, 2000, at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore. He was buried with full military honors in Arlington Natl. Cemetery.Ed was born...
Benjamin Shimberg *47
Benjamin Shimberg died Sept. 24, 2003, in Trenton, N.J. He was 85.Born in Rochester, N.Y., Shimberg graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the U. of Rochester...
Gordon M. Shimer '37
"TOUGH MINDED, HARD DRIVING" Gordon Shinier died May 12, 1992. Although he had been in poor health for the last two years, his death from a heart attack was unexpected....
Earl L. Shimp '50
Earl died Nov. 6, 2004, in a hospital near his lifelong home in Pennsville, N.J.Earl graduated from Salem [N.J.] High School. He was in the Army Air Corps from 1943-46,...
Daniel Levin Shimshoni '41
Dan died March 15, 2009, in Herzeliah, Israel, his home for 50 years. After graduating from the English independent school of Dulwich College in London, Dan came to...
Walter Seymour Shingle '41
Sy Shingle died Aug. 29, 1995, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His wife, Priscilla, had passed away a scant month before he did. Sy didn't graduate with us, and there is little we...
Rinn-Sup Shinn '57
Rinn died on his 82nd birthday, May 5, 2011, after a long struggle with cancer. He came to Princeton from South Korea, joining ’57 in his junior year. He majored in...
Wilbert Joseph Shinn '33
Joe Shinn died in Easton, Md., Oct. 16, 1996, two days after his 86th birthday. He lived in Princeton for many years, graduated from Princeton H.S., attended Hun School,...
William T. Shinn '57
Bill died on June 6, 2001, Richmond, Va., from complications from Parkinson's disease, which he had had for 25 years.Entering Princeton at age 16 from Washburn H.S....
Morris Shipley '33
Morris died Mar. 6, 1996, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta, Ga., of heart failure. He was 84.Morris lived in NYC and prepared for Princeton at Pawling. He roomed with...
Noel Shipman '65
Noel Shipman died Dec. 13, 1994, of prostate cancer, the same disease that had claimed his father only four months earlier.At the time of his death, Noel was living 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...
John Shirk '65
John died of respiratory failure Nov. 8, 2011, at Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh. He was a graduate of Manheim Township High School in Lancaster, Pa., and lived in...
John Stager Shirk '39
Johnny died April 1, 2008, at Lancaster (Pa.) General Hospital after a month-long illness. Johnny had forged a second career as a civic leader while managing two...
Leonard Shirley '40
LEN SHIRLEY DIED of lung cancer in New Bern, N.C., Aug. 6, 1993, just one week after the death of his wife of 44 years, Jean.Len came to Princeton from Edgewood (Penn.)...
Thomas Richard Shoaff *34
Thomas Richard Shoaff, a Fort Wayne, Ind., architect, died May 13, 2005. He was 96.Well before the age of motorized travel, Shoaff was born in a horse-drawn carriage en...
Benjamin Howe Shoemaker '29
BEN DIED Oct. 30, 1989, He prepared for college at Loomis. At Princeton he was in the Glee Club and was assistant manager of the musical clubs. He was in Cannon Club and...
Eugene M. Shoemaker *60
Eugene Merle Shoemaker of Flagstaff, Ariz., distinguished astronomer and comet specialist, died July 18, 1987, in an automobile accident near Alice Springs, Australia....
Paschal Green Shook Jr. '35
Paschal died Feb. 9, 2003, in Mountain Brook, Ala., not far from his birthplace of Birmingham.He prepared for Princeton at the Birmingham University School, where he was...
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....
Charles Samuel Shoup *29
Sam died Feb. 26, 2002, in Carmel, Ind. He was 96. He graduated from Central Methodist College in Fayette, Mo., and from Princeton with degrees in biology. He taught at...
Charles Wesley Shreiner Jr. '45
Charlie died Aug. 22, 2004, at Dunwoody Village in Newtown Square, Pa.Charlie entered Princeton from Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia, joined Cottage Club, and played...
James Shriver III '50
Throat cancer stilled the strong bass voice of Jim Shriver June 29, 1995, a voice that played an important role in his life from the Deerfield Glee Club to Triangle Club...
Roger Shugg '27
DR. ROGER "Rodge" Shugg died Apr. 30, 1993, at a convalescent home in Alberquerque, N.Mex.He came to us from Brookline H.S., won a Phi Beta Kappa in history, was...
Frederick Whitney Shull '39
Fred died Nov. 21, 2001, in Stevensville, Mont., where he had been living with his son, Steele, and his family. A longtime resident of Bellingham, Wash., Fred had...
Harrison Shull '44
Harry died at home in Monterey, Calif., July 28, 2003.His father, George, was a professor of biology and genetics at Princeton. Harry attended Princeton High and, like...
John C. Shull '32
John Shull died Jan. 20, 2006. He was 94 and resided in West Yarmouth, Mass., with his wife, Charlotte Kean Shull.John graduated from Princeton and from Harvard Medical...
Herbert L. Shultz '40
Our multitalented and devoted classmate died at home March 5, 2012. After preparing at Albany Academy, he followed his cousin, Henry Shultz ’31, to Princeton. Herb...
Paul Chandler Shuman '51
Paul died Feb. 25, 2005, in Cherry Hill, N.J. He had suffered a debilitating stroke in 1995.The son of Frank R. Shuman '22, Paul graduated from Downington (Pa.) High...
Frank Ritter Shumway '28
RITTER SHUMWAY died of cancer Mar. 9, 1992, at his home in Brighton (Rochester), N.Y. Ritter's grandfather founded the manufacturing firm for dental equipment and...
David Shute '53
Information was received from Princeton’s Alumni Records office that David died May 17, 2008. His last residence, according to Alumni Records, was Chicago. His widow,...
Frederic Merrill Sibley Jr. '34
Fred Sibley, our class poet and former poet laureate of a century-old literary club in Detroit, died Nov. 2, 2003, less than a month after his 92nd birthday.For several...
Harper Sibley Jr. '49
Harper died June 4, 2009. He was 82. He prepared for Princeton at Groton School. Harper was on the baseball and rugby teams and sang in the Glee Club and choir. He...
John W. Sibley '55
John “Sib” Sibley died May 2, 2010, in New York City. He was the son of George H. Sibley ’20. John graduated from Collegiate School. At Princeton he majored in...
Dewitt Van C. Siclen '40 *51
Dewitt died Sept.25, 2001, in Houston, where he had been a resident for nearly 50 years.He prepared at Flushing HS in New York, following his relative, Robert Ditman Van...
Wallace D. Van Siclen '47
Wally served with the Marines in the Pacific theater and rejoined our war-torn class in 1946. Graduating in 1949 he took up graduate studies at Tulane, and met and...
Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff '52
Connie died peacefully Dec. 26, 2011, at home in New York City. He was 81. A prominent New York environmental attorney and senior government official deeply involved in...
Paul R. Sieber Jr. '44
Paul died May 12, 1995, of cancer at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, where he had practiced medicine for four decades. He was 72.Paul came to Princeton from Shady Side...
David Burns Siebert '48
David Siebert, a well-known general surgeon in Manasquan, N.J., died June 10, 2008, of congestive heart failure. David, a graduate of Metuchen (N.J.) High School,...
John Tyler Siegel '61
Jack died Apr. 29, 2002, after a brief illness, in his hometown, Richmond, Va. Jack came to Princeton from St. Christopher's School in Richmond. At Princeton he majored...
Richard Arnold Siegel '40
Dick Siegel died in Atlanta on Jan. 11, 1997, of congestive heart failure. He attended Lawrenceville and studied economics while at Princeton. In 1940 he graduated with...
Clifton Siegelin '32 *34
Cliff Siegelin died Aug. 4, 1996, at Glenside Nursing Home in New Providence, N.J., after a long illness.After attending graduate school at Princeton as a student and...
Alfred Dennis Sieminski '34
AL SIEWNSIU, who served four terms as a congressman from NJ., collapsed and died Dec. 13, 1990, apparently of a heart attack, while attending a Christmas party near his...
John C. Sienkiewicz '55
Born Oct. 8, 1933, in Center Bridge, Pa., to Jane Patton and Casimir Sienkiewicz, prominent Philadelphia banker, John was in his turn prominent. At Princeton he was...
Paul B. Sigler '55
Paul Sigler, one of the world's leading structural biologists, died of cardiac arrest Jan. 11, 2000.Paul attended Bennett H.S. in Buffalo, N.Y., where he led both the...
Morton Silberfeld '34
Mort died on July 23, 2001, in Manhasset,N. Y., of complications from a stroke he suffered in 1997.After graduating from Princeton, Mort took business courses at...
Donald Silberman '56
Don suffered a massive heart attack and died Mar. 29, 2004.A longtime unionist and social activist whose progressive roots extended back to the civil rights and antiwar...
Hampton G. Silcox III '36
Hampton died of Alzheimer’s disease April 27, 2011, in Worcester Township, Pa. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Jenkintown, Pa., Hampton came to Princeton from...
David K. Silhankek '57
David died peacefully May 2, 2012. At Princeton he majored in English, played baseball, and joined Cannon Club. After Princeton he obtained a master’s degree from...
Sidney Bayley Silleck Jr. '36
Sid died Mar. 6, 1998, after a long illness. A graduate of Deerfield Academy, at Princeton he majored in psychology and was a member of Key and Seal Club. For many years...
Robert Bruce Silver '45
Bruce Silver died of pancreatic cancer July 20, 2010, in Akron, Ohio. He entered Princeton in 1941 from Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, and joined Tower Club....
Wallace E. Silver '52
AFTER TWO MASSIVE STROKES, Wallace Silver died in Santa Barbara, Calif., Dec. 22, 1991. His funeral was held in the chapel at the Naval Weapons Center in China Lake,...
Joseph A. Silverman '52
Joe died May 7, 2012, at the Jewish Home in Rockleigh, N.J., from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 81. Born in Clifton, N.J., April 24, 1931, he was...
Arthur Homer Silvers '39
Art died Apr. 6, 1999, at Lancaster [Pa.] General Hospital. He and Edith, his wife of 57 years, had moved to Willow Village in Lancaster in 1995.After graduating from...
Richard Tilton Silvers '44
DICK SILVERS died of a massive stroke June 12, 1992, in Cleveland. A diabetic from childhood, he had suffered a double amputation in 1986, severely restricting his...
Charles T. Silverson '30
AFTER A LONG and lingering illness, our classmate Charles T. Silverson died Feb. 8, 1993, at Friendship Village in Bloomington, Minn. A prominent and lifelong citizen of...
Martin L. Silverstein *65
Martin Silverstein, a mathematics professor at Washington University St. Louis, was struck by a car while on foot. He died Jan. 15, 2004, at age 64.Martin was known...
Lionel Valdema Silvester Jr. '45
VAL SILVESTER died 24, 1991, at his home in Princeton. Val was born in Princeton, a fourth generation Princetonian, his father having been a member of the Class of'13....
Tom Simkin *66
Tom Simkin, a geologist emeritus who had risen to senior curator at the Natural History Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, died June 10, 2009, of esophageal cancer....
Donald Maclaren Simmons Jr. '49
DON DIED May 7, 1991, in Tucson, of complications from emphysema.He was born Aug. 13, 1922, in Sewickley, Penn., and prepared for college at Lawrenceville. Don...
Richard Sheridan Simmons '51
DICK DIED of lung cancer Feb. 10, 1991, in Stuart, Fla., his winter home. He was among '51's most outstanding members. His career as a lawyer, banker, and expert on...
Warren Hathaway Simmons Jr. '48
Sim’s pride and joy was the Class of 1948. He led it (as president from 1988 to 1993), goaded it (AG, reunions, trips, activities), and loved it dearly. The Class of...
Barry P. Simon '64
Barry died July 14, 2010, in Boston, from multiple myeloma. He is remembered for his keen intellect, dry sense of humor, and eager competitiveness tempered by a strong...
Marc C. Simon '80
The Class of 1980 is sorry to report the death of Marc Simon. Marc died April 16, 2010, after losing his battle with cancer, at home in Saint Victor la Coste,...
Louis D. Simonds Jr. '26
LOUIS SIMONDS, a lifelong resident of Charleston, S.C., died at his home there on June 10, 1989, after a long bout with cancer. He was a graduate of Gilman School and at...
Marshall Simonds '52
Pete Simonds, attorney, public servant, and outdoorsman, died Oct. 1, 2008, in Morrisville, Vt. A native of Belmont, Mass., Pete attended Belmont Hill School, where...
John J. Simonetti III *81
John Simonetti, an expert in materials science, died Dec. 24, 2009, at home. He was 60. Simonetti received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1972 from Rutgers...
Albert Simons Jr. '40
That '40 trooper and southern gentleman, Albert "Fish" Simons, died Jan. 6, 1998. He had not been well for some time. Fish was a friend throughout the years, and his...
Harold Lee Simons '48
Harold Simons died Mar. 3, 1999, after a two-year battle with cancer.Harold came to Princeton in June 1944 with the Andover contingent. With time out for naval duty, he...
Laird C. Simons '28
Laird died Dec. 25, 2002, in Denver; he was 96. He was born in Philadelphia and attended Germantown Friends School. He followed his two older brothers, Jack '24 and Dain...
R. Bentham Simons III '42
OZE DIED Feb. 9, 1994, at his home in Charleston, S.C. He had practiced internal medicine at the V.A. hospital there for many years before retiring several years ago.Oze...
S. Stoney Simons '42
S. Stoney Simons died Oct. 1, 2007, at the Foulkeways at Gwynedd, Pa., following a stroke. Stoney was born in Charleston, S.C. He prepared for Princeton at the Fountain...
Carl Bohnhorst Simonton '37
We only received notice in Oct. 1997 of Carl Simonton's death on Aug. 29, 1992, of cancer. His wife, Rosemary, predeceased him, and in 1947 he said that the only other...
Frank Edward Simpson Jr. '45
Frank Simpson died May 22, 2006. Frank entered Princeton from Parker High School in Chicago but spent only one year at the University. He left to serve in the Army Air...
James E. Simpson '52
Jimmy’s 2008 Christmas greeting was a photo of him cavorting with a danseuse on Bourbon Street. Four years after receiving a liver transplant, he exited dancing March...
James Randolph Simpson '41
RANDY SIMPSON DIED of a heart attack on Nov. 9, 1993, in Washington, D,C. He retired as a scientific officer with the Office of Naval Research (O.N.R.).Brought up in...
James William Simpson '29
JIM LIVED in Wichita, but died July 17, 1992, while visiting his son in Flintridge, Calif. He prepared for college at Arnold and Lawrenceville. At Princeton he belonged...
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...
John S. Simpson '35
John, known to us as “Johnny,” died Nov. 10, 2011, at Indiana Regional Medical Center in Indiana, Pa., where he was born, raised, and lived nearly all of his life. A...
Thomas K. Simpson '44
Tom died Nov. 23, 1992, of cancer, in Naples, Fla. His second wife, Jane, predeceased him by several years. Tom came to Princeton from Exeter, where he played basketball...
Reginald Sims II '28
REGINALD (BUNT) SIMS died in Tampa, Fla., on July 22, 1989, after a long illness. lived during his early years in New York, and his family moved to Florida in 1920....
Robert Abbot Sincerbeaux '36
Bob died at home in Hanover, N.H., on Dec. 6, 2000. He was 87. A graduate of the Hun School, at Princeton he majored cum laude in political science. In 1939 he received...
Neil Johnston Sinclair '45
JACK SINCLAIR died Aug. 16, 1989, although the Class did not learn of his death until last May. Jack, a native Californian, did not enter Princeton with the Class, but...
Sydney Edgar Sinclair '32
SYD SINCLAIR, a dedicated pediatrician and medical administrator, died of a stroke May 17, 1991. Born and raised in Williamsport, Penn., he practiced for much of his...
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...
Michael Singer '49
Mike, who had a number of heart problems over the years, died May 26, 1997. He was 69. Mike prepared for Princeton at Brooklyn Technical H.S. At Princeton he majored in...
Lawrence Singmaster '38
Larry is probably best remembered by the class as the all-America fullback and captain of Coach Bill Logan's 1937 championship soccer team. But he also was president of...
Charles Sinnickson Jr. '44
Charlie died Dec. 5, 2007, in his apartment in London. We knew him as “Tiger,” a name familiar to his family. He lived in England since around 1960,...
Paul A. Siock Jr. '64
Paul died March 8, 2012. He was born in Dunmore, Pa., grew up in Kenilworth, N.J., and graduated from Jonathan Dayton High School. At Princeton, Paul majored in chemical...
Samuel Freeman Sipe II '39
A STROKE SENT SAM to the hospital in Dec. 1992, where he remained in a coma until he died Jan. 30, 1993. For the past 30 years, he had been, in his own words, nursing a...
William H. Sippel Jr. *50
William H. Sippel, a prominent Pittsburgh architect, who with his firm greatly changed the face of that city, died Feb. 12, 2007, of a bone marrow blood disease. He was...
David M. Sisler '53
Dave, who was the Boston Red Sox Rookie of the Year in 1956 and who pitched seven years in the big leagues before becoming vice chair and executive vice president of the...
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...
George Spenser Sisson '44
George died on Dec. 9, 2000. He was raised in Erie, Pa., and prepped at Phillips Exeter Academy, and his father was in Princeton's Class of 1912. His major at Princeton...
George Spenser Sisson '44
George died on Dec. 9, 2000. He was raised in Erie, Pa., and prepared at Phillip Exeter Academy; his father was a member of the Class of 1912. George majored in the...
Gerald D. Sjaastad *63
Gerald Sjaastad, a retired Air Force colonel who later practiced law, died Dec. 8, 2009, at the age of 79. Sjaastad graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1952, and...
Albert Melvin Skellett *33
ALBERT MELVIN SKELLETT, astrophysicist and teacher' died at the age of 90, on Aug. 12, 1991, in Sarasota, Fla. Dr. Skellett was born in St. Louis and earned a bachelor's...
James T. Skelly Jr. '35
Jim Skelly died Oct. 13, 1995, in Delray Beach, Fla., after a long illness. His wife, Margaret Taylor, had died several years earlier. He is survived by three children,...
William S. Skelly '33
BILL SKELLY died May 10, 1990, in Pittsburgh. He had spent almost all his life in the Pittsburgh area.Bill was born Sept. 21, 1911, in Monongahela, Penn. He prepared at...
Donald Mather Skidmore '41
Don (“Skid”) died in a nursing home near Cincinnati Nov. 30, 2009, from lymphoma, which was diagnosed only a few weeks earlier. A native of Elizabeth, N.J., Skid came...
Lemuel Skidmore Jr. '39
LEM DIED Aug. 24, 1992. Diagnosed with terminal cancer in Jan. 1991 and given six months to live, Lem kept the monster at bay for 20 months. Savoring, each day, Lem was...
Richard Jenkinson Skillman '34
DICK SKILLMAN, a popular classmate remembered for his broad smile, deep voice, and gentle humor, died Mar. 13, 1993. A son of Thumas J. Skillman 1898 and the brother of...
Walter Rumsey Skinner Jr. '40 *41
After a prolonged period of suffering from diabetes complications, Rum died on Jan. 23, 2002. Preparing at St. Louis Country Day School, he followed his cousins E....
Robert A. Sklar '58
Bob died July 2, 2011, in Barcelona from a brain injury sustained in a bicycle accident. He came to Princeton from Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, Calif. Bob was...
Frederick V. Skok '52
Following a period of declining health, Fred died in his sleep at Overlook House, a Christian Science facility in Cleveland, Jan. 10, 2003. His memorial service was...
ALEC Skolnick *39
Alec Skolnick, well-known psychiatrist in the SF Bay area, died Jan. 6, 2004, at his San Mateo home. He was 89.Son of Latvian immigrants, Skolnick earned his...
W. Cameron Slack '50
“Cammy” Slack died of respiratory failure July 1, 2011, in Towson, Md. He graduated from the Gilman School in his hometown of Baltimore. At Princeton, he played...
A. Russell Slagire '22
RUSS SLAGIE, our lifelong bachelor, died July 4, 1993, at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. Complications arose after he suffered a bad fall in his apartment....
Philip D. Slater *38
Philip D. Slater died July 26, 1995, at Nyack Hospital in Nyack N.Y. He was 79. At the time of his death he was undergoing rehabilitation for a stroke he had suffered...
Duard Geis Slattery '45
Duard Slattery died June 16, 2007. Slats entered Princeton from Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pa., and joined Tower Club. His war service as an infantry officer with...
Frank P. Slattery Jr. '26
FRANK SLATTERY, a dynamic and innovative twoterm mayor of WilkesBarre, Penn., and a dominant political figure in his community for many years, died June 17, 1991.Starts...
Henry Munn Slauson Jr. '37
Henry Munn Slauson Jr. died April 15, 2007, at his home. He was born in Roselle, N.J., lived in Plainfield, N.J., and spent time in Cranford, N.J., as...
Charles Paul Slavin '76
It is with great sadness that the class officers report the death of Charles Slavin July 30, 2012, unexpectedly but peacefully, at home in Maine. Charlie came to...
John Hoyt Slawson '22
THE CLASS is saddened to report that Jack Slawson died Feb. 15, 1992, after a series of strokes. He had been in excellent health until that time and around the time of...
Robert Barrie Slaymaker '51
Barrie was born April 29, 1929, the son of Samuel E. Slaymaker Jr. ’14 and Eugenia Barrie Slaymaker. An alumnus of St. Paul’s School, he was a philosophy major at...
Francis H. Sleeper *52
Francis H. Sleeper, an old-fashioned, respected, and hardworking business reporter, died Sept. 8, 2006, in Portland, Maine, after a long struggle with prostate cancer....
Fred P. Slivon Jr. '52
Fred Slivon died April 2, 2011, in San Rafael, Calif. Raised in Chicago, he attended Fenger High School, where he was a class leader active in student government,...
Benson B. Sloan Jr. '37
FRIENDLY, VIVACIOUS, INVETERATE REUNER Ben Sloan died of heart failure Oct. 29, 1990.At Groton he was on the crew, debated, and was cheer leader. At Princeton he was on...
Burrows Sloan Jr. '33
Buzz Sloan was born in Ardmore, Pa., and died in Burr Ridge, Ill., on July 18, 2003. He was 92.Buzz attended Phillips Exeter Academy and left Princeton after junior...
Joseph Curtis Sloane '31 *49
Joe Sloane, our class's winsome pedagogical champion, died Apr. 9, 1998, in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 89, long retired, but still bearing the titles of Alumni...
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...
A. Terry Slocum '67
Terry died at his Danville, Calif., home June 17, 2004, surrounded by his family. He displayed faith in God as he courageously dealt with a rapid transition from being...
Jonathan Slocum '36
Johnny died Dec. 29, 2000. A graduate of the Gunnery School, at Princeton he majored in history and was a member of Colonial Club. After Princeton he graduated from the...
Robert E. Slocum '54
Robert Slocum died Feb. 17, 2013, at his home. Bob was born in Minneapolis and graduated from the Blake School. At Princeton, he majored in psychology, was a member...
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...
Richard E. Smalley *74
Nobel Prize-winning chemist Richard Errett Smalley died of leukemia Oct. 28, 2005, in Houston. He was 62.Born in Akron, Ohio, Smalley shared his mother's love of science...
Violet Smallhorne-Jackson '79
In her Tigers Pause essay, Violet wrote that although she would miss our 25th reunion, she hoped to make the 30th. Sadly, that will not be.After an 18-month struggle...
John R. Smart Jr. '52
Jack died Aug. 12, 2009, in Evanston, Ill. He came to Princeton from Lawrenceville, where he played varsity football, earning a letter in two years. At Princeton he...
William R. Smart '41
Bill died March 21, 2012, at his home in Gilford, N.H. Born in Scotland, he and his family moved to Schenectady, N.Y., when he was 5. He prepared at Mount Pleasant High...
Henry R. Smedley '44
Henry Smedley died on Sept. 2, 1997, at his home in Watchung, N.J., after a long illness. He was 75.He came to us from Haverford and West-town Schools. At Princeton, he...
Walter Smedley Jr. '42
Walter Smedley, a Philadelphian and Quaker, died March 2, 2010, at Penncrest Farm near Media, Pa., the home where he was born. Walt prepped at the Haverford...
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...
Alan L. Smith '36
ALAN SMITH, M.D., died Jan. 14, 1994, at the age of 80. After preparing at the Hill School, he majored in biology at Princeton, and was a member of Quadrangle Club. He...
Andrew Augustus Smith '33 *34
Andy died of leukemia Jan. 16, 1997, at his home in Stonegates in Greenville, Del. He was well aware of his condition; shortly before he died, he met with a group of...
Brewster W. Smith '33
The class suffered a severe loss when Brew Smith died on Aug. 3, 1989, in Alexandria Bay, N.Y., a place he loved very deeply. Brew was born on Apr. 30, 1910, in...
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...
Charles Alstin Smith '59
Chuck Smith died at home Sept. 24, 2007, of cancer. Born in New York City, Chuck spent his youth in New Jersey and attended Scotch Plains High School, where he played...
Charles C. Smith '50
Charlie died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in Belleville, N.J., April 15, 2004.He was a lifelong resident of Newark, N.J. He dated his ancestors back to the...
Charles Cornelius Smith Jr. '59
“Corky” Smith died June 3, 2007, in Jacksonville, Fla.. Corky came to Princeton from The Hill School, where he played varsity golf. He continued his golf prowess at...
Charles Jacob Smith Jr. '42
Charles Smith died of Alzheimer’s disease Feb. 14, 2010, in Escondido, Calif. Charles was born into the world of service. His father, Dr. Charles Smith Sr., was...
Christopher Culver Smith '51
Cul Smith died of spinal cancer on Dec. 26, 2000, in Palm Desert, Calif., the Smiths' winter home.He was a native of Spokane and came to Princeton from Gonzaga Prep. At...
Craig Gary Smith '58 *63
Craig died on Mar. 18, 2000, of emphysema. He came to Princeton from Oak Park, Ill. As an undergraduate, Craig's interests included swimming, WPRB, and the Princeton...
Dawson C. Smith '47
Move over, James Bond, for ’47’s Dawson Smith. After three years of service with the Navy during World War II, he graduated in 1949 and joined a New York bank. A...
Dewitt Hendee Smith '26
DeWitt, scholar, athlete, and distinguished physician, died Mar. 4, 1991, at Corvallis, Ore. A junior Phi Bete, DeWitt rowed on the crew and was a well-known member of...
Donald Charles Smith '52
DONALD CHARLES SMITH '52 After his collapse and a month in the hospital, Don Smith died on July 7, 2005, from complications of suspected early dementia. A Mass of...
Edgar Pichard Smith '42
ED DIED on Oct. 10, 1989, at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. At the time of his death, he was retired from Time, Inc., following an outstanding career in...
Edwin J. Smith Jr. '30
Edwin J. Smith Jr. died Dec. 29, 1995, in his hometown of Prescott, Ariz., where he retired in 1971.Born Apr. 23, 1906, in Buffalo, N.Y., to Edwin and Genevieve Maxwell...
Edwin Richard Smith Jr. '55
Dick Smith died of lung cancer Sept. 30, 2003.He was born in Cumberland, Md., and raised in Baltimore and Denver, where he attended East Denver High School. At Princeton...
Elting H. Smith '40
One week short of his 93rd birthday, Smitty died July 16, 2010, in Essex, Conn. He prepared at Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn. At Princeton, he majored in...
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...
Francis E. Smith '38
Francis E. Smith died June 5, 2008, in Darien, Conn. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he attended The Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., graduating with honors in 1934. Several of...
Frank Edward Smith Jr. '30
"F. E.", AS HE WAS KNOWN to all of us, died Aug. 27, 1992 in Sharon Hospital, Salisbury, Conn., where he had lived since 1955. He was 83, and had had a distinguished...
Fred Burton Smith '37
Longtime Treasury Dept. official and North Carolina basketball enthusiast Fred B. Smith died Nov. 2, 1998, of cardiac arrest. His first wife, Jeanne, died in 1954. He is...
Frederick Hoffman Smith IV '30
Fred died Oct. 9, 2004. Born in South Orange, N.J., son of Frederick H. Smith III 1894, he came to Princeton from Lawrenceville.He believed Princeton not only gave him a...
Fulcher Perry Smith Jr. '39
Perry died June 13, 1998, in Cumberland, Md., where he was born and lived all his life. He had been owner and operator of Cumberland Box and Mill Co. and Pergin Farm in...
G. Kidder E. Smith '35 *38
Few men attain the stature in their elected fields that was reached by the classmate known affectionately as Geks. A graduate of Princeton's School of Architecture (MFA...
Gardner Watkins Smith '53
Gardner, an eminent surgeon and professor of medicine, died of cancer at his Deer Isle, Maine, home Oct. 5, 2006. He prepared at Andover, majored in chemistry at...
Geoffrey N. Smith '61
Geoff died Aug. 4, 2011, in a one-car crash in Chatham, N.Y. Born and raised in Cleveland, he came to Princeton from University School in Shaker Heights. At Princeton he...
George Rockwell Smith '35
George Smith died Dec. 4, 1996. He was 83. He was born on Long Island and lived in NYC. His prep school education was at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. At Princeton...
Gilbert Walker Marshall Smith '50
GIL SMITH died Jan. 25, 1993, in Pasadena, his life-long hometown. He joined the class from South Pasadena H.S but left after his sophomore year to marry Joan Corbin,...
Glen Denny Smith '42
Glen D. Smith died of a massive heart attack Feb. 2, 2009, at his home in Charles Town, W. Va. Glen was born in Schenectady, N.Y., and attended the Albany Academy. At...
Gregory Allan Smith '68
The class lost a loyal member and dear friend when Greg Smith succumbed to lung cancer Sept. 24, 1995, at his home in Berkeley, Calif., lovingly attended by his wife of...
Harold Byron Smith '31
FOLLOVING AN ILLNESS of several months, our classmate, Harold Byron Smith, died Oct. 30, 1990, in Good Shepherd Hospital, Barrington, Ill. He was 81 years old. At...
Harold Calhoun Smith Jr. '35
"SMITTY," "H.C.," OR "CALHOUN," as he was variously known to classmates, died Sept. 28, 1992, after a six-month bout with cancer. Smitty's death has deprived our Class...
Harrison W. Smith '47
Many of us in Princeton’s July 1943 V-12 contingent will remember Smitty with affection. He served on a carrier in the Pacific theater and was recalled to Navy sea duty,...
Haviland V.L. Smith '38
Haviland Smith died Feb. 11, 1997, at his home in Newport Beach, Calif. He was born in Toledo, Ohio, and also lived in West Virginia and Illinois. Duryea '34 was his...
Hermon Emerson Smith Jr. '34
Herm Smith, vice president of Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn, Mass., until it was sold and he retired, died Aug. 9, 2006, in Ossipee, N.H. He was 94. Since...
Hollis Wooster Smith '45
HOLLY SMITH died Sept. 2, 1991, in Beaufort, S.C. entered Princeton with a small Loomis contingent that consisted of Beany Collins, Eginton, Winnie Smith, and...
Homer A. Smith '54
Our beloved classmate Homer Smith died April 10, 2011, at his home in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Born in Independence, Mo., he prepared for Princeton at Lawrenceville. His...
Hubert George Smith Jr. '33
HUGH SMITH died on june 5, 1989, in Sarasota, Fla., where he had lived since 1978.Hugh was born on Aug. 12, 1906, in Havana, Cuba, and prepared at Mt. Hermon. At...
James Ward Smith '38 *42
James Ward Smith '38 *42 died from emphysema on September 26, at the Medical Center at Princeton. He was 82.A political philosopher known for dramatic lectures, Smith...
John Chabot Smith '36
John died May 16, 2002. He prepared at Loomis School. At Princeton he majored in history. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year. He did graduate study...
John H. Smith Jr. '52
John died Aug. 26, 2009. He joined us from Ladue, Mo., a St. Louis suburb, where his family were restaurateurs for generations. At Princeton he was editor of the Tiger,...
John Lewis Smith Jr. '35
JOHN LEWIS SMITH JR., age 79, a retired chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and former chief judge of the D.C. Court of General Sessions,...
John Lewis Smith III '63
Lew, one the nation’s prominent health-care attorneys, died Jan. 28, 2013, congestive heart failure at a nursing center in Clinton, Md. He had suffered a series...
Karl Beckwith Smith Jr. '39
K.B. died Jan. 28, 2006, in Sanibel, Fla., just two weeks short of his 90th birthday.He was widely recognized as the longest living survivor of insulin-dependent...
Kent M. Smith '69
It is with great sadness that we record the death of Kent M. Smith in Edina, Minn., on Apr. 20, 2000, following a massive heart attack.After graduation Kent followed his...
Lamson B. Smith '37
Publisher and public relations banker Lamp Smith died Nov. 29, 1997, after battling leukemia and peripheral vascular disease. He leaves his wife, Claire; children Caron,...
Leland Stuart Smith '48
Stu died Nov. 10, 2004, in Louisville, Ky.Born in Honolulu, he was a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C. After serving as an infantry rifleman in...
Leonard S. Smith III '47
Steve died Aug. 30, 1995, at his home in Stuart, Fla.During WWII, he was an officer in the Marine Corps. After graduation he returned his home town, Cincinnati, and...
Lester Wickham Smith '30 *33
LES SMITH died July 24, 1993, at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., after a long illness. He had a long and distinguished career as an architect,...
Levi P. Smith Jr. '40
Levi died Dec. 7, 2004, in Shelburne, Vt., after a year failing health. Sybil, his wife 53 years, said, "He died peacefully and with dignity and love."A graduate...
Lindsay C. Smith '40
Lindsay died Apr. 1, 1996, after a long illness. in Birmingham Ala., where he was born and lived his entire life. He attended Sewanee Military Academy. He majored in...
Max Truman Smith Jr. '41
Red died Sept. 2, 2002, in Naples, Fla. A native of Wallace, Idaho., he graduated from Lawrenceville. At Princeton he majored in chemistry, joined Cannon, and roomed...
Maynard E. Smith '41
Maynard died April 17, 2012. Smitty, as he was usually known, came to Princeton from Hempstead (N.Y.) High School. He roomed with Van Flynn during freshman year, with ...
Patrick Connelly Bernard Smith '28
Pat Smith died in Knoxville, Tenn., on June 17, 1997. He had lived all his life in Knoxville. He prepared at the Princeton Tutoring School. At Princeton he majored 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...
Peter M. Smith '59
Peter died June 14, 2012, at Myrtle Beach (S.C.) Manor, an assisted-living facility where he had resided for several years. The son of Russell Smith ’32, Peter was...
Philip Chabot Cecil Smith '32
Phil, retired chairman and CEO of Yardley of London, Inc., and a director of mutual funds from the early days of their development as investment entities, died Feb. 17,...
Philip Waddell Smith '33
Phil died May 17, 2003, at Riddle Memorial Hospital in Media, Pa. He was 91.After graduation from Princeton and Harvard Business School, he joined CIT Corp., where he...
Prentice Kellogg Smith '42
Prentice Smith died July 5, 2008, in Essex, Conn., of congestive heart failure. He was the son of George P. Smith 1900. P.K. prepared at St. Paul’s. At Princeton he...
R. Porter Smith '44
PORTER DIED in his sleep Apr. 13, 1991 ' of a heart attack. He had suffered from chronic emphysema. He grew up in Baltimore and was educated at Calvert School and...
Richard Bull Smith '34
R.B. Smith of Rumson, N.J., where he served on the management board of a volunteer organization, FISH, that provides transportation for the elderly and disabled -- he...
Richard Dickinson Smith '27
Richard Dickinson Smith died July 24, 1995. Dick came to us from Woodbury Forest School. His father was Edgar Smith 1890. He majored in modern languages and was a member...
Richard G. Smith '53
A tragic automobile accident took the lives of Dick, his wife, Sally; their son, Matthew; and Matthew’s daughter, Laura, on June 3, 2010, as they were driving in Napa...
Richard Herrick Smith '42
Dick died Mar. 18, 1998, at his winter home in the British Virgin Islands. At the time of his death he was retired from the real estate and insurance firm, Pierson &...
Robert Brookings Smith '26
Bob died Dec. 30, 2002, at his home in Ladue, Mo. He was 99.Born in St. Louis, he prepared at Lawrenceville and while at Princeton participated in football, crew,...
Robert C. Smith '52
Robert Smith, known to us as "Smitz," died peacefully June 28, 2007, at his home in Phoenixville, Pa. In his later years he preferred "R.C." to Smitz. Born and raised...
Robert Lewis Smith '50
Bob died of cancer on Mar. 4, 2001, at his home in Newton Square, Pa. A history major at Princetown, he earned his LLB at the U. of Virginia school of law, using his law...
Robert Pease Smith '39
Bob died in Clermont, Fla., Jan. 19, 2007, after a long and distinguished medical career. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1943. After an accelerated...
Robert Walter Smith '45
Bob Smith died Jan. 10, 2009. Bob entered Princeton from John Burroughs School in Webster Groves, Mo., and joined Quadrangle Club. He received an A.B. from Princeton...
Russell Marion Smith Jr. '53
Russ, one of our most amiable and fun-loving classmates, died Aug. 8, 2002, of cardiac arrest in Denver, Colo.Arriving from Hinsdale HS, Russ concentrated in history,...
Sanderson Smith '47
Sandy Smith died of cancer Sept. 28, 1995, at his home in Readfield, Maine. After graduating from the Berkshire School in 1943, he served in the Army during WWII. He saw...
Stevan Butler Smith '35
Steve died Dec. 14, 1997, in his Banner, Wyo., home, from the complications of Alzheimer's disease. Since retiring from business in 1978, Steve and his wife, Margaret,...
Stuart S. Smith '52
Stu Smith died June 18, 2008, in Maryland, after a brief illness. He was 78 and still working full time at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Stu was born in...
Sydney Griswold Smith Jr. '52
Syd died Aug. 20, 2004.Born in Philadelphia, he entered Princeton from Phillipsburg [N.J.] High School. At Princeton he was deeply involved in his major, chemical...
Thomas K. Smith '55
Born April 1, 1933, at Suomi Crossing in Dodge County, Ga., Tom Smith, an attorney, churchman, and businessman, died Jan. 29, 2011, in Atlanta. The son of Thomas...
Vincent R. Smith Jr. '49
Vincent died Dec. 23, 2005, after a long illness. He was 81. He was originally a member of the Class of 1947, but switched to '49 upon his graduation. He prepared for...
W. Conwell Smith Jr. '52
W. CONWELL SMITH JR. '52 Connie Smith died of cancer July 16, 2005, at his home in Union, Ky. He came to Princeton from Gilman School, where he played on the 1947...
Wallace Howard Smith '31
Red, one of the most loyal of all Princetonians, was born Nov. 19, 1908, in Joplin, Mo., and died Mar. 25, 2001, in Kissimmee, Fla. His clothes, his house, his actions,...
Wesley R. Smith *57
Wesley Smith, a professor of physics at Lehigh University for 43 years, died Jan. 2, 2010, at the age of 81. Smith received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics...
William David Smith Jr. '56
Dave Smith died of cancer at his home in Kennett Square, Pa., on Feb. 9, 2001. At Princeton he majored in chemical engineering, won his varsity letter in ice hockey, and...
William Edgar Smith '34
Bill died Feb. 6, 2004. Born in 1914 in Balti-more, he went to the Gilman School there.At Princeton he majored in biology, and was a member of Arbor Inn. After earning...
Winslow H. Smith '47
Smitty was a robust, happily remembered classmate from Princeton's July 1943 V-12 unit. He went on to the Pacific theater and, on return to postwar Princeton, he...
Edward W. Smolensky '57
Ed died April 7, 2010 of Parkinson’s disease after a long struggle. He was 74 and a resident of Pinehurst, N.C., at the time. After graduating from Blair Academy he...
Craig Hugh Smyth '38 *56
Craig died of a heart attack Dec. 22, 2006, in Cresskill, N.J. He attended Hotchkiss School and majored in classics at Princeton, where he was elected to Phi Beta...
John M. Smyth '37
Described by Roger Barrett as "the most widely-beloved man I have ever known" and a third generation in the family furniture business, Johnny Smyth died Aug. 7, 2000. He...
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....
Robert J. Smythe '26
BOB SMYTHE died in his home in Westfield, NJ., May 22, 1990, a victim of emphysema, Although very active in his career, Bob was always able to find time in support of...
Ernst Snapper *41
Ernst Snapper, the Benjamin Pierce Cheney Professor of Mathematics emeritus at Dartmouth College, died Feb. 5, 2011. He was 97. Born in the Netherlands, Snapper came to...
Lawrence O. Snead III '75
LAWRENCE O. SNEAD died Jan. 20, 1990, of brain cancer. An extraordinarily knowledgeable and wonderfully witty gentleman, Lawrence came to Princeton from St....
Sedgwick Snedeker '33
Sned died May 8, 2001, of pneumonia. He 92. He lived in Laurel Hollow, Long Island and Palm Beach, Fla. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. At Princeton he...
Thomas Snelham '35
Tom Snelham died Oct. 31, 1996. His wife of 56 years, the former Frances Hart, predeceased him in Apr. 1996. Surviving are three children, Julia Stokes, Linda...
Albert Conrad Snell '35
Al, also known to us as “Albie,” died peacefully April 20, 2010. Born in Rochester, N.Y., Al came to us from The Hill School. At Princeton he majored in biology and...
T. Carlisle Snively '31
T. CARLISLE SNIVELY, 85, died Aug. 20, 1992, in Pottstown, Penn. He prepared at Exeter Academy, and while at Princeton was on the soccer and basketball squads. He roomed...
Thomas C. Snively II '63
Tom, a medical-equipment sales executive who lived in Elverson, Pa., died Feb. 21, 2011, surrounded by his loving family. Born in Allentown, Pa., he went to The Hill...
Alan Joseph Snouffer '59
Joe Snouffer, a long-lime restaurateur, died in Dallas on Mar. 17, 1999.Joe came to Princeton from Marion Harding H.S. in Marion, Ohio, but was with us only a short...
Charles Frederick Snover '25
Charlie Snover died Oct. 21, 1996. He was 94. He was a lifelong resident of Glenridge, N.J. He is survived by a daughter, Deborah Evans, and two grandchildren.He...
Richard Lorenzo Snow '61
Dick died Jan. 23, 2002, at Hartford [Conn.] Hospital. Born in DC, Dick prepared at the Kingswood School. At Princeton, Dick played soccer and lacrosse, was keyceptor...
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...
Frederick Snowden Skinner '40
RETIRED NEWSPAPER EDITOR Fred Skinner died May 2, 1992, in Vancouver, B.C., where he had lived for some 45 years. Coming to Princeton from Providence Country Day School,...
James Fluckey Snowden '33
Jim died on June 18, 1996. He was 85. He had been in poor health for some time and was living in a nursing home at the time of his death.He came to Princeton from...
John Austen Snyder '55
Born June 25, 1933, in Passaic, N.J., to Margaret Overacre and Austen Snyder, John graduated from Ridgewood (N.J.) High School. At Princeton he was a psychology major,...
Edwin Gann Snyder '52
Responding to a brief note about Ned Snyder's death on May 18, 1999, Tom Leary wrote the following remembrance as a long-time friend and Princeton roommate:"Ned did not...
Franklin Faust Snyder '19
FRANK SNYDER, of Newton Center, Mass., died June 2, 1992. He had been retired for several years from his position as head of the obstetrics department at Harvard Medical...
Frederic J. Snyder Jr. '38
Fred Snyder never married and had no children, so that the news of his death on Nov. 29, 1996, was delayed in reaching us until recently. He was 81.Fred prepared for...
Fredrick Reinhardt Snyder '39
Fred died Oct. 21, 2006, at Reading (Pa.) Hospital after suffering a sudden, massive cranial bleed. Although he had diabetes for several years, he was active and in...
George Elton Snyder Jr. '30
George Elton Snyder Jr. died Aug. 31, 1996, at Waverly Heights in Gladwyne, Pa. He was the husband of the late Frances "Soapie" Lux, whom he married in 1933.George was...
John Clinton Snyder '36
John was born in Clinton, Iowa, and died May 13, 2000. He prepared at Lake Forest Academy. At Princeton he majored in psychology and was a member of Tower Club.During...
Roy H. Snyder Jr. '30
Roy died Dec. 15, 2001. He was 92.Roy prepared at Tome School and Marston U. School. At Princeton he was a member of the Glee Club, the Gun Club, and the soccer team. He...
William D. Snyder Jr. '40
Bill's classmates could always expect to see him at Princeton reunions and games; he told us to count on him at last year's 65th. Sadly, a stroke intervened and Bill's...
Harry Joseph Sohmer Jr. '40
HARRY DIED from a heart attack May 23, 1990. Harry is survived by his widow, Anne; three children, Harry J. III, Anne D. Sohmer, and Robert H. J.; and a brother, Robert...
William Guido Sohne '97
Guido Sohne died May 2, 2008, in Nairobi, Kenya. A computer-science major, Guido founded his own firms, Webstar Internet in 1998 and sohne.net in 2001, in Accra,...
Frank Soler '51
FRANK DIED May 19, 1990, in Houston.He was born in Duitarna, Colombia, Oct. 11, 1915. He joined our Class as a transfer from Columbia Univ. and majored in civil...
Donald M. Solitar *55
Donald Solitar died from a sudden heart attack April 25, 2008. He was 75 years old. Solitar was born Sept. 5, 1932, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the oldest child of Morris and...
Arthur Kaskel Solomon '34
Art, emeritus professor of biophysics at Harvard Medical School and a scientific member of the US delegation to UNESCO 1976 and 1978, died Nov. 6, 2002, at his home...
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...
Richard Sommer '83
Richard Sommer died suddenly of heart failure Sept. 6, 2011, in London. Richard was born June 18, 1961, in Indianapolis. He was president of his class at New Trier High...
William R. Soons '44
Willie Soons died Nov. 3, 2011, in Stonington, Conn., with his wife, Joan, and his daughter at his side. A Lawrenceville graduate, Willie received a minor “P” in...
John H. Sorenson '55
John drowned Aug. 8, 1995, while fly-fishing in Maine with his son, Mark. He was born in Wisconsin and came to Princeton from the Milwaukee Univ. School. He pursued the...
George Bernard Sour '30
GEORGE SOUR died June 27, 1990, at the Northern Westchester Hospital in Mt. Kisco, N.Y., after a long illness.George came to Princeton from the Franklin School in N.Y.C....
Robert Thomas Sour '52
TOM SOUR died Jan. 25, 1990. His memorial service was held in the Rye Presbyterian Church, Rye, N.Y. on Jan. 27, 1990,Perhaps most of all, Tom was a visionary. As...
Parkin Thomas Sowden Jr. '44
Tom died Oct. 3, 2011, in Greenville, S.C. Tom came to Princeton after graduating from Exeter. He majored in chemical engineering, roomed with Jay Madeira, and was...
Peter Matthews Spackman '52
Peter Spackman died of a heart attack in New York, N.Y., Mar. 16, 1995. His funeral was in the Eliot United Church of Christ in Newton, Mass.Peter was a man of gentle...
Thomas Spackman II '31
Thomas Spackman II died Nov. 18, 1995, at St. Joseph Hospital Lancaster, Penn., after a long illness. Educated at Wilmington Friends School and Princeton, he worked...
William M. Spackman '27
"SPACK" DIED Aug. 3, 1990, at his home in Princeton, after a career which made him one of our most distinguished literary alumni. Descended from Pennsylvania Quakers, he...
Anthony Spagnuolo '80
Tony died Dec. 13, 2011, after a hard-fought battle with cancer. He was originally in the Class of 1977, coming to Princeton from Wayland, Mass. Tony studied civil...
Kimball Spahr '41
Kim died Apr. 6, 1996, at Manor Care in Palm Harbor, Fla. He was 79. His wife, Mary Beth, survives in their Tarpon Springs home. All four children live nearby.Born in...
David L. Spanel '50
Dave died June 8, 2004, at his home in Princeton after a long illness.He graduated from the Horace Mann School in New York City and attended Princeton for three years...
M. Kimberly Sparks '52 *63
M. Kimberly Sparks died Oct. 30, 2006, in Cornwall, Vt. Kim left Princeton in 1951 to join the Air Force. He married his childhood sweetheart, Suzann Spayde, and...
Richard T. Sparks '57
Dick died Sept. 17, 2011. His home was Lynchburg, Va. At Princeton, he majored in civil engineering, joined Cap and Gown, and played football. He was active in the...
Walter Russell Sparks '40
BRIGANIINE, NJ, RESIDENT Walt Sparks died June 30, 1992, at Atlantic City Hospital, after suffering a heart attack on the gulf Course. Classmate Bill Pugh attended his...
Barrie D. Sparling '52
Barrie died June 20, 2010, in Wilton, Conn. He entered Princeton with our class but interrupted his studies and his job as managing editor of the Bric-a-Brac to serve...
Selden Spaulding '44
Our quiet painter died Oct. 31, 2005, in San Francisco.Denny, as he was known to most, was raised in Santa Barbara, Calif., and prepped at Laguna Blanca School and The...
Robert V. Spayd '48
Bob Spayd died March 22, 2011. At Princeton he played football and basketball in 1944 and 1945 prior to two years in the Navy. On his return he joined Cap and Gown, was...
Willard Allen Speakman III '60
Bill died of pancreatic cancer April 11, 2006, in Antigua, British West Indies. He prepared for Princeton at Westminster School and was vice president of Elm Club,...
William Clay Spearing '49
Bill was born on Long Island, N.Y., June 30, 1924, and according to the Social Security Index died at Islip in May, 1985.Bill came to Princeton from Mineola H.S. At...
Alfred F. Specht Jr. '47
Alfred Specht, formerly of Atlanta and Wilmington, N.C., died Saturday March 26, 2011, in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. Al was born Feb. 4, 1926, in East Orange, N.J. He...
Robert C. Specht '44
Bob died Jan. 6, 2013, in Falmouth, Mass., a day after his 90th birthday. At Princeton he majored in biology, roomed with Bob Deming and Don Thomson, and was in...
Janet G. Speck *82
Janet Speck, a career U.S. Foreign Service officer, died of breast cancer Oct. 29, 2011, at the age of 58. Speck received a bachelor’s degree in history from Chicago in...
James M. Speers III '50
Jim, a native of New Jersey, died in Alabama Feb. 27, 2007. He had been afflicted by Parkinson’s disease. A graduate of Choate, he served in the Navy’s...
Michael Frederick Speers '59
Mike died Jan. 20, 2008, in Kennebunk, Maine, where he had resided for the past 20 years. We have no details as to the cause of death. Mike was born in Lahore, Pakistan,...
Peter C. Speers Jr. '44 *49
Peter died Feb. 8, 2010, in Austin, Texas, where he had lived since his retirement in 1981. Born and raised in India by missionary parents, he spent much of his life...
Robert B. Speers '49
Bob died Sept. 10, 2007, at the age of 79. He prepared for Princeton at Montclair (N.J.) High School. At Princeton he majored in politics and joined Campus...
T. Guthrie Speers Jr. '50
The class and country lost one of its great voices for justice, decency, and humanity when Guthrie died April 17, 2011, in Boston. After graduating from The Hill School...
William Ewing Speers Jr. '45
Bill Speers died at the Meadow Lakes retirement community in Hightstown, N.J., Oct. 31, 2006. After graduating from South Kent (Conn.) School, Bill entered Princeton,...
Alexander Pyott Spence Jr. '36
Sandy died March 2, 2005, at home in Wilmington, Del. He was 91 and came from a long line of Princetonians.Sandy attended Lawrenceville and graduated from the Morristown...
George I. Spence '65
George Spence died peacefully March 13, 2007, in Johnson City, Tenn., after a 5 1/2--year battle with a rare form of cancer of the appendix. Born in Rochester, N.Y.,...
Harold G. Spence '35
HAL SPENCE died Mar. 17, 1992, in Naples, Fla., at age 79. That afternoon he suffered a heart attack, having played golf with a friend in the morning.Hal prepared for...
John Spence '55
John was born April 28, 1934, in Mineola, N.Y., and died June 26, 2011, of complications following cardiac arrest in Pittsburgh, where he was visiting family. John...
Barton Marsh Spencer '68
Bart died May 2, 2000, of coronary problems. He came to Princeton from Smithtown Central H.S. in St. James, N.Y. At Princeton, he was a history major and member of Tower...
Chaloner P. Spencer '44
Chaloner Spencer died July 26, 1998, after a long bout with emphysema. He was 74. A native of Brattleboro, Vt., he began music studies with Roger Sessions while at...
Davis Spencer '45
Dave died Sept. 5, 2005, after a long and valiant struggle with multiple myeloma.He entered Princeton from Millbrook as his brother, William '45, arrived from Exeter,...
Donald G. Spencer '37
Antique dealer, interior designer, and member for two and a half years of the original cast of Kiss Me Kate, Don Spencer died in May 2000. He majored in English at...
Edgar A. Spencer '36
Our class secretary died in his sleep Nov. 14, 2010, in Falmouth, Maine, following two months of hospitalization, rehab, and hospice care. Born in Johnstown, N.Y., Ed...
Frank Norton Spencer Jr. '33
Frank died in Lenox, Mass., April 18, 2003. He was 93.He was born in Toledo, grew up in Bronxville, N.Y., attended the Lawrenceville School, and graduated from Princeton...
Harold B. Spencer '37
MINING ENGINEER and bird watcher Bebe Spencer died Dec. 17, 1993, of emphasema, leaving five children and seven grandchildren.He came from a large Princeton family' with...
Joseph M. Spencer '40
Joseph Spencer, of Lake Wylie, South Carolina, died Nov. 3, 2000, at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, N.C. He was 86. He came from a Princeton family, including his...
Richard Henry Spencer '48
Dick Spencer, a distinguished Kansas City, Mo., lawyer, died at home Sept. 9, 2008. Dick was equally distinguished for his loyalty to Princeton and to the Class of...
Thomas Marshall Spencer '41
Tom died Dec. 28, 2007, at Hospice of Arizona in Peoria. He came to Princeton from Duluth, Minn. Joining the Army Air Corps in 1942, Tom won his wings and was...
William Spencer '45
Will Spencer died July 3, 2009, in St. Augustine, Fla., after a brief struggle with multiple myeloma. Will prepared for Princeton at Exeter and joined Tower Club. In...
William M. Spencer Jr. '50
Bill died at home in Nicasio, Calif., Jan. 24, 2003, after a long illness and five weeks before his 74th birthday.Born in Chicago, Bill entered Princeton from Deerfield....
Daniel Sperber *61
Daniel Sperber, a retired professor of physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, died Aug. 15, 2009, at the age of 79. Born in Vienna, Austria, Sperber immigrated to...
Robert Harold Sperber '36
ON JULY 17, 1991, Bob and his wife, Jane, died tragically in a house fire, on their 36th wedding anniversary, at their residence in Palm City, Fla.Transferring to...
Samuel Martin Sperling '60
Martin died Oct. 14, 2003, after a courageous struggle with a rare form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Throughout his life, he was careful about his health and diet, and...
Frederick Donald Sperry '30
Don died July 6, 2002, after a long illness.He was a Navy veteran of WWII and a member of the Military Order of World Wars.After he retired from the First New Haven...
Stuart Major Sperry '51
Stu died Sept. 25, 1998, in London from prostate cancer. He was emeritus professor of English literature at Indiana U. and divided many years between Bloomington and...
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...
Robert L. Spillman '41
On Oct. 11, 1998, Bob Spillman died in his winter home in Sebring, Fla.A lifelong resident of Columbus, Ohio, he came to Princeton from Columbus Academy, majored in...
David Affleck Spoehr '48
Dave died Aug. 23, 2004, in Fort Myers, Fla., of complications from diabetes.His entire professional life of 35 years was with the large fastener manufacturer Russell,...
Thomas Franklin Spoehr '47
Tom died Feb. 5, 2002, of pancreatic cancer in his Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., home. His final struggle reflected the spirit of his 76 years, defined at age 10 after an...
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...
George C. Sponsler III '49 *52
George died Aug. 18, 2008, from the effects of Parkinson’s disease. He was 80. George prepared for Princeton at Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C. At...
Anthony John Sposato '48
Anthony John Sposato '48 Tony Sposato was with us for only two years. He came to us by way of Davis High School in Mount Vernon, N.Y., and left to follow his interest...
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...
Carroll Sprigg '60
Carroll was born Nov. 8, 1938, in Dayton, Ohio, to John Sprigg, and Jeanette Emmons Sprigg. He had a younger sister, Louise, and an older brother, Joseph. Carroll...
Harold J. Springer III '59
Hal died Aug. 31, 2012, at home in Wilmington, Del., after a long illness. Hal came to Princeton from Alexis I. duPont High School. He majored in psychology and joined...
Harold Love Springer Jr. '29
Had died July 27, 1998. He prepared for college at Wilmington Friends School and Tower Hill School in Wilmington. At Princeton he played polo and was active in the Glee...
John Murry Springfield *54
JOHN MURRY SPRINGFIELD *54, principal of Memphis Univ. School and faculty member of that institution for 31 years, died Aug. 8, 1989, at Baptist Hospital East in...
Richard Austin Springs Jr. '40
PRINCETONIANS WILL BE saddened to learn of Dago's death on Feb. 17, 1990. His energy and will to live were finally overpowered in a protracted struggle with cancer....
Douglas C. Sproull '72
Doug died Aug. 9, 2012, in St. Louis after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer and just three weeks after the death of his wife of 38 years, Helen “Gigi” Rand...
William B. Sprout III '55
Born in Boston July 16, 1933, Bill Sprout, son of Sybil and William B. Sprout Jr., died April 8, 2012, in Cohasset, Mass. He was an educator, linguist, international...
Peter Benton Spruance '51
PETER SPRUANCE died Sept. 27, 1992, suddenly and tragically in Newton, South Australia.Peter was born in Philadelphia, the son of Benton Murdoch Spruance, a noted color...
Preston Lea Spruance '33
Pres died on Oct. 5, 1998, after a lengthy battle with pneumonia and emphysema. He was 86. After graduation, he worked for duPont until he retired. He was active in...
William W. Spruance '39
Bill died Jan. 15, 2011. Having survived a crash in a T-33 training jet in 1961, Bill went on to give over 3,000 lectures on “Flying Safety and Crash Survival.” For...
Donald Lionel Spurling '52
After a two-and-one-half-year battle with cancer, Don Spurling died on March 10, 1987, in Williamsville, NY. His funeral service was held in Calvary Episcopal Church,...
Elmer King Squier '51
Bud was born Feb. 17, 1922, in North Plainfield, N.J., where he went to high school. He was in the Army’s 117th Cavalry from 1941 to 1946, serving in North Africa,...
Wilbur Welles Squire '38
Will, a class regional vice president, died Oct. 31, 2002, after a brief illness, in Seattle.He graduated from the Choate School. At Princeton he majored in biology, was...
Fordyce Barker St. John Jr. '45
Fordyce Barker St. John died March 31, 2010, at Meadow Ridge in Redding, Conn. Known as John St. John, he entered Princeton from Deerfield Academy and joined Ivy Club....
W. Laird Stabler Jr. '52
Laird died Feb. 24, 2008, in Wilmington, Del., his lifelong home. He was an extraordinarily respected figure in Delaware’s public life. He served two terms in the...
Edward Macgregor Stack '41 *50
Ned died at home in his sleep Dec. 22, 2004.He prepared at Ponce de Leon School in Florida and Utica Academy. At Princeton he majored in modern languages, won the Alden...
John Martin Stadter Jr. '52
With the death of John Stadter, the class lost one its finest students. John died from complications of myelodysplasia, a cancer of the bone marrow, Dec. 7, 2003, in...
Warren Staebler '33
Warren died April 27, 2004. He led a very happy, productive, and versatile life.After attending Hughes High School in his native Cincinnati, he graduated from Princeton...
Frederick Gordon Stager '39
GORDON DIED June 4, 1991, at the hospital in Franklin, N.C. He had been totally paralyzed and blind since 1964 and bedridden for the past 14 years. Before his illness...
Nicholas Mcleod Stahl '38
Nick died April 13, 2004, in Westerly, R.I., after a long and difficult struggle with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.He prepared at Blair Academy and Exeter where...
John R. Stallings Jr. *59
John R. Stallings Jr., professor of mathematics emeritus who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for 38 years, died of prostate cancer Nov. 24, 2008. He...
George Lincoln Stallman Jr. '30
GEORCE STALLMAN DIED Oct. 29, 1993, of a massive heart attack, despite the fact that he had been doing extremely well recently.George was born in York, Penn., Apr. 2,...
John Peter Staman Jr. '42
Jack, of Rackliff Island, Spruce Head, Maine, died from a heart attack April 10, 2006.He graduated from William Penn Charter School, where he was president of the senior...
Henry Collin Stambaugh '50
Hank Stambaugh died Jan. 23, 1992. Not much is known of his later years except that he lived in central Indiana and was last reported working with Logansport Machine in...
Harold Edgar Stanard '42
Clancy Stanard died in Florida Nov. 28, 2007, following a severe stroke. Clancy came to Princeton from the Berkshire School. At Princeton he majored in modern...
Gregory E. Stanbro Jr. '50
Greg, who came to Princeton from Oklahoma, died of cancer Sept. 11, 2000.At Princeton, Greg was a member of Colonial Club. Though majoring in biology, he went on to...
Robert A. Stanger '61
Bob died in an accident April 18, 2005, in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico, at one of his three homes.Born and raised in Cranford, N.J., he came to Princeton from the Pingry...
David T. Stanley '37
David T. Stanley, public administrator, researcher, and scholar, died Jan. 22, 2008. Born in Orange, N.J., Dave attended Montclair Academy. At Princeton, he majored in...
Edmund A. Stanley Jr. '49
Edmund Stanley, known as Ted, died Dec. 16, 2009, at his home in Oxford, Md. He was born July 9, 1924, in New York City. After Lawrenceville and infantry duty in...
Edward L. Stanley '40 *47
It seems such a short while ago that Ed was anticipating another productive sugaring season from his Pennsylvania maple trees and another vigorous hike in the mountains...
Howard Jack Stanley '41
Howard died Dec. 11, 2006, at home in Southern Pines, N.C., after a long illness. Born in Bayonne, N.J., and raised in Cranford, N.J., Howard graduated from the Hun...
Ralph L. Stanley '74
Ralph "Steamer" died of melanoma on Apr. 2, 2001. He faced a harrowing illness with bravery and his incomparable wit and humor. Ralph was from Tenafly, N.J., and came to...
William Stanley Jr. '41
BILL STANLEY died of cancer May 21, 1992, at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. He was a senior partner in the law firm of Covington & Burling, where he had...
Craig Stansbury '51
Craig died of a heart attack Dec. 24, 1995 while he and Alice were visiting their daughter Kristen in Manassas, Va.He was a man of many parts. In his career he held...
Henry Lee Staples III '41
LEE STAPLES died in his sleep of cancer on Jan. 21, 1990, at the Bethesda Nursing Home in Chevy Chase, where he had lived the last three years. Lee was an honors...
Lee Mannen Stapp '51
Lee was born June 3, 1929, in Covington, Ky., and raised in Dade County, Fla., where he died Feb. 4, 2006, of congestive heart failure. He came to us from Woodberry...
Cristo George Starche '29
CRIS DIED Nov. 18, 1991. He prepared for college at the American Farm School in Salonika, Greece, and the Hun School. After Princeton he went back to the American Farm...
Joseph M. Starita *70
Joseph Starita, a chemical engineer who led corporations in engineering and manufacturing, died Nov. 17, 2009, of brain cancer. He was 65. Starita received a bachelor’s...
Melinda Beth Starn '94
Mindy died on May 3, 1999. Born in Redwood City, Calif., she was from Honolulu, Hawaii, and graduated from the Punahou School. Although Mindy left Princeton during her...
Frederick Russell Starr '38
Ted Starr died Dec. 8, 1996, of Alzheimer's-related illness, leaving his devoted wife of 49 years, Frances, and daughters Elizabeth Thomas, Sharon Turner, Cynthia...
Isaac Starr '16
Ike, who was also known as Jack, died on June 22, 1989. He obtained his medical degree at the Univ. of Pennsyl¬vania, and after his internship he joined Penn's medical...
Isaac Starr Jr. '44
Isaac Starr Jr. died in Philadelphia of an apparent heart attack on May 24, 1997. He was 74.A graduate of Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia, he majored in biology at...
Ralph W. Starrett Jr. '44
Ralph Starrett died from an aneurysm on Nov. 12, 1999. After New Trier H.S., he came to Princeton and majored in physics. He was the manager of the tennis team and a...
William R. Starrett '52
Bill Starrett died Aug. 30, 2004, at his home in Lincroft, N.J., from complications related to Parkinson’s disease and a fractured hip. Born in Brooklyn, he came to...
Thomas Harry Stathopulos '49
Tom died Sept. 29, 1995, following a three-year bout with ALS, which he bore with grace. He had been selected to participate in a program for the new drug riluzole, but...
Elmer Norman Staub '37
Bud died Jan. 19, 2007, in Glenview, Ill. He was 90. He grew up in Short Hills, N.J., and attended Peddie School. At Princeton, Bud majored in economics and played...
Donald G. Stauffer '47
After a full and richly varied life, Don died peacefully Jan. 30, 2012. After graduating from The Hill School, Don entered Princeton in the summer of 1943. He left to...
George Henry Stauss '53
George died Dec. 21, 2005, after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer.Born in East Orange, N.J., March 25, 1932, he moved with his family to Alexandria, Va., in 1947 to...
John M. Steadman III *49
John Steadman, an accomplished author and educator, died peacefully March 4, 2012, at the age of 93. After receiving bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emory in...
Edwin Russell Stearns III '55
Russell Stearns died of cancer Nov. 15, 1999, in East Hyde Park, Ohio. He was born and reared in the Cincinnati area, where he lived most of his life.Russ graduated cum...
Philip Olcott Stearns '40
Phil died Feb. 11, 2000. He prepared at The Brooks School and at Princeton he lettered in the 150-lb crew, of which he was captain. In addition he had an outstanding...
Susanne Osullivan Stearns '83
Our class is saddened by the Aug. 4, 1996, death of Susanne O'Sullivan Stearns in Boston of complications from a bone marrow transplant. She had struggled with...
Stuart John Stebbins '38
Jack Stebbins died at his home in Hanover, N.H., June 9, 1997, nearly a year after suffering a stroke that cut short his brilliant career.He prepared at Exeter, joined...
Glenn Benjamin Stec '75
Glenn died on Apr. 13, 2001, at Lankenau Hospital in Lower Merion Township, Pa. He was 47.Born in Lawrenceville, N.J., he lived there until coming to Princeton from...
Henry Steeger '25
HENRY STEEGER, publisher and civil rights leader, died at his home in Manhattan Dec. 25, 1990. In 1930 he founded Popular Publications, with "pulp" titles such as DIME...
Alfred Steel '40
Retired business and civic leader Alf Steel died Feb. 28, 1996, in the Philadelphia area, where he had resided throughout his life. Classmates Nick Biddle, Crawf...
Ernest Richmond Steele Jr. '39
BUD DIED of heart failure Mar. 28, 1993, in Dover, DeI., his home for most of his life. He had retired there in 1997 as v.p. and regional manager of theBank of Delaware,...
Richard O. Steele *49
Richard Steele, a chemist who had been executive vice president of Celanese International, died Aug. 15, 2011. He was 89. Steele graduated in 1942 from the University of...
Walter Arundel Steele '45
Walter A. “Bill” Steele died May 27, 2008. He entered Princeton from East Denver High School in the footsteps of his father, Judge Robert Steele ’13. Bill joined Tower...
Somers K. Steelman '54
Somers “Syd” Steelman died June 8, 2009. Born in Elizabeth, N.J., he was a graduate of Atlantic City High School and remained a resident of Longport, N.J., for the...
Lindsay N. Steen '57
Lindsay died peacefully Jan. 11, 2011, at his home in Lowell, Mass. He had battled a number of maladies over several years. He was 75. He grew up in Warren, Pa., and...
James Rich Steers Jr. '48
Dick Steers was the most thoughtful and caring of classmates. He knew just about everyone in the class and extracted dollars even-handedly from and less...
C. Thomas Steffens '53
Tom, who was predeceased by his wife, the former Meredith Roll, whom he married senior year, died of a stroke March 29, 2011, in Gladstone, N.J. Tom was gladly cared for...
John R. Steigman '51
We lost a good friend and honorary classmate when John died of cancer Oct. 31, 2006. He was 83. A graduate of Williams College, John played tackle in 1942 on the only...
Charles Francis Stein III '55
Charlie died of pneumonia Feb. 8, 2006, at his home on Gibson Island, Md.He prepared for Princeton at Gilman School in Baltimore, and majored in political science at...
Susan B. Stein '79
Susan Stein died Nov. 26, 2005, we recently learned. She was 47. Susan came to Princeton from John Adams High School in Howard Beach, NY. She majored in...
Andrew B. Steinberg '80
Andy Steinberg came to Princeton from Scarsdale, N.Y., and delved immediately into campus life when he joined The Daily Princetonian as a reporter and editor. In a...
Michael Steinberg '49 *51
Michael, who helped frame the listening experience of countless music lovers, died July 26, 2009, from complications related to cancer. He served as The Boston...
Stuart H. Steinbrink '27
Stu Steinbrink died on Oct. 22, 2001. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and remained a New Yorker for his entire life. He came to Princeton from Polytechnic Preparatory...
Carl Cable Steiner II '75
Carl Steiner died Apr. 22, 2003, after a nine-month battle with brain cancer. He was 49.Born in Ann Arbor, Mich., he grew up in Canton, Ohio, where he graduated from...
Robert F. Steiner '47
Bob was one of ’47’s distinguished scientists. Graduating with highest honors in chemistry and election to Phi Beta Kappa, he went on to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard. He...
Stephen Rogers Steinhauser '42
Stephen Rogers Steinhauser was born in Newburgh, N.Y., in 1921 and died Aug. 11, 2007, in Sarasota, Fla., of complications of heart disease. Steve came to Princeton...
Rev. H. Philip Steinmetz '30
The Rev. Philip Humason Steinmetz of Marietta, Ga., died Mar. 15, 1997. He was 87.He was born in Cape May, N.J., Aug. 3, 1909, the son of the Rev. Dr. Philip J. and...
John M. Steinsieck '37
Ardent reuner Stiny Steinsieck (also known as Chip) died Nov. 15, 1998. His wife of 59 years, Frances, daughters Joan and Betty, son Bill, and seven grandchildren...
Robert Babers Stell '52
AFTER A FIFTEENYEAR STRUGGLE with cancer, Bob Stell died Aug. 17, 1990, in the hospital where he had served for 30 years in San Angelo, Tex. His funeral was in the First...
William Watts Stelle '40
WHILE RECOVERING from throat cancer surgery, Bill Stelle died unexpectedly of heart failure on Feb. 7, 1992. Son of Frederick W. Stelle 1893, he was born in Ossining,...
Alfred Stengel Jr. '31
AL DIED Jan. 28, 1993, in Merideth, N.H. He prepared at William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia. While at Princeton, he was on the DAILY PRINCETONIAN photographic...
Charles Durels Stengel '29
Casey died Dec. 31, 1998. He prepared at Newark Academy, and at Princeton roomed with Bob Mellis and belonged to Gateway Club. He went to Yale Law School and had a...
Geoffrey Stengel '37
Geoffrey Stengel died at his home Gladwyne, Pa., on Jan. 17, 2002, from complications from Alzheimer's. Geoff came to Princeton from Penn Charter School and majored...
James F. Stengel '26
THE SAD NEWS has reached us only recently, from San Diego, that Jim Stengel died Nov. 8, 1991, following a severe stroke that caused him to be hospitalized for the 13...
Charles H. Stephens '32
Charles died Aug. 27, 1996, in the Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst, N.C.Upon graduation Charles joined the family business, then the Buffalo Fire Appliance Corp.,...
Edgar R. Stephens *51
EDGAR R. STEPHENS *51, professor emeritus of chemistry at U.C.Riverside and environmental scientist, died Aug. 19, 1990, at the City of Hope, Duarte, Calif., of...
Horace Donaldson Stephens '59
Horace died of lung disease Dec. 6, 2005, at his home in Falmouth, Maine. Born in Pittsfield, Mass., Horace was preceded at Princeton by his father, the Rev. John...
Walter Bremer Stephens '42
Walter died Oct. 10, 1995, in Albany, N.Y., his home for most of his life. At the time of his death he was retired from the family business, Thomas Stephens & Son Real...
David Chew Stephenson '45
Dave Stephenson died of leukemia July 4, 1997, at his home Washington, D.C. At his services, classmates Talbot Chubb, Will Haley, Steve Palmer, and Wat Stewart were...
Fred William Stephenson '50
Fred Stephenson died Sept. 4, 1995, at Hospice House at University Hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., after a long and valiant battle with throat cancer. He joined the...
Kennard F. Stephenson Jr. '51 *55
Ken was born July 6, 1926, in Albany, N.Y., the son of Mary Flugel and Kennard F. Stephenson 1912. Ken attended Milne High School in Albany. He was a sergeant in the...
Robert Lorth Stephenson '35
Bob Stephenson died July 20, 1998, in Pittsburgh, Pa., after a long battle with heart problems. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Madeline.Bob prepared at Shady...
Howard Wellington Stepp '39
HOWIE, our honorary classmate, coach, mentor, and friend, died on Aug. 30, 1989. He had been in failing health after he suffered a stroke several years ago. Last May, in...
Donald Justus Sterling Jr. '48
Former class secy. Don Sterling died on Mar. 27 of pancreatic cancer. He was the former editor of the Oregon Journal, renowned for his dedication to journalism and...
Sidney M. Sternbach Jr. '31
STEW DIED Mar. 17, 1993, in Ossining, N.Y. He prepared at Choate School. He roomed for three years with E. J. Mack Jr. and S. N. Summer Jr. Stew was a stockbroker,...
Joel H. Sterns *58
Joel Sterns, a New Jersey attorney who had been a prime mover in bringing casino gambling to Atlantic City, died Feb. 21, 2011, after heart surgery. He was 76....
Raymond A. Sterrett '26
RAY STERRETT, known to many of his classmates as "Skillet," died after a long illness May 6, 1993, at Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton, Fla. Skillet came to Princeton...
Robert R. Sterrett '44
Bob died Sept. 25, 2007, in a hospital near his home in Stafford Township, N.J. Born in Cranford, N.J., he attended Cranford High School, where he was once athlete of...
Bayard Macdonald Stevens '39
After a long hard battle with cancer, Willie died at his home in Vero Beach, Fla., Apr. 15, 1998. He and Mary, his wife of 58 years, had moved there from Bay Head, N.J.,...
Charles Henry Stevens '31 *32
Charles was born Aug. 15, 1910, in Jersey City, N.J., and died Mar. 6, 1985, in Ossining, N.Y. He was single, an only child, and had very few (if any) close relatives.He...
Charles Rolfe Stevens '38
Charles Stevens died Aug. 14, 2006. Graveside services were held at Fort Logan National Cemetery outside Denver Aug. 21. Chuck, as he was known, prepared at North...
Edson Sweet Stevens '31
EDSON STEVENS died Oct. 13, 1992. His last place of residence was Milford, Mich. Ed worked in real estate and insurance until he retired in 1967. After retirement, he...
George E. Stevens '52
George died March 16, 2009, in New Canaan, Conn. Born June 20, 1930, in Buffalo, N.Y., he attended Nichols School, where he was a star athlete and cum...
Harry James Stevens Jr. '36
Steve was born in 1915 in Newark, and, except for his service in World War II, always lived in New Jersey. He died June 11, 2009, in New Brunswick. At Princeton, Steve...
Henry Carrington Stevens II '41 *47
Steve died at home in West Chester, Pa., on May 9, 2002. Son of John M. Stevens '17, and great-great-grandson of Henry Carrington 1814, he prepared at the Haverford...
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....
Hugh C. L. Stevens III '44
DR. HUGH STEVENS died Apr. 13, 1993, of heart failure, while taking his morning walk in Waynesville, N.C. In the aftermath of this terrible blow to his widow, Carol,...
John Booth Stevens '29
Johnnie died on March 8, 1999.He prepared for college at Culver and Lawrenceville. At Princeton he was on the swimming and golf teams, and belonged to Charter Club. His...
John Henry Stevens II '29
JOHN DIED Apr. 13, 1992. He had prepared for college at F. W. Parker School. At Princeton he played freshman football and varsity football. He was in Ivy Club and his...
Richard A. Stevens '47
Dick left us with little information about himself in our yearbooks and only a brief obituary. We do know that he served in the Navy during World War II, graduated in...
Richard K. Stevens '22
RICHARD K. STEVENS died Apr. 15, 1991, in Sarasota, Fla. He is survived by his widow, Dorothy, whom he rnarried in 1979; three children; and ten grandchildren.Dick was a...
Richard K. Stevens Jr. '58
Dick Stevens died May 19, 2007, from complications of lymphatic cancer. He came to Princeton from Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia and majored in history....
Rolland Ezra Stevens Jr. '33
Steve died Feb. 25, 2001, of cancer. He was 90. Steve was born in Joliet, Ill., and graduated from Lawrenceville School in 1929. At Princeton he was on the Daily...
Sydney Gilman Stevens '30
OUR CLASS LOST a very dedicated and energetic supporter when Syd Stevens passed away Aug. 22, 1993. In addition to terms as vp. and treasurer of the class, he was also...
Walter D. Stevens '47
Walt’s Princeton experience illustrates how “war-torn” our class was. He was unable even to set foot on the campus in 1943 because he was swept into the Army and became...
Charles S. Stevenson Jr. '59
A freak accident took the life of Charlie Stevenson in Sanbornton, N.H., on July 6, 1999. A lightning bolt split a 60-foot pine tree, sending it crashing down onto the...
Charles Summers Stevenson '30
Charles Stevenson, one of the distinguished doctors in the class and its first centenarian, died Feb. 1, 2008. He celebrated his 100th birthday in November in Laconia,...
Frederick J. Stevenson Jr. '55
Frederick J. "Ted" Stevenson Jr., an environmental officer of the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, died Feb. 6, 1998, of malignant melanoma in Pittsburgh.Ted...
John Reese Stevenson '42
Jack died Oct. 26, 1997, at his home in Fort Worth, Tex., of multiple systems atrophy. His distinguished career in law included the chairmanship of Sullivan & Cromwell...
Kennedy Stevenson '47
Ken's bittersweet struggle with life ended Sept. 1, 2004.After Army service in Europe, Ken returned to Princeton and roomed and bonded in a wonderful friendship with...
Theodore D. Stevenson '25
Ted prepared at Andover. At Princeton he was football manager, president of Cottage Club, and a member of our service council. He roomed with Bruno Hill and Mike...
Walker Woods Stevenson '35
ONE OF OUR most loyal and outstanding classmates, Walker died Mar. 2, 1992, after an almost threemonth struggle with a series of complications. A memorial service was...
William Taylor Stevenson Jr. '50
The Reverend W. Taylor Stevenson died at home Feb. 27, 1996, after a brief illness. Taylor prepped at the Hill School, and after Princeton, he attended Episcopal...
William W. Stevenson '50
Bill died Oct. 9, 2008, after a long battle with leukemia. He had lived primarily in Charlottesville, Va., since 1950. Bill graduated from Groton. At Princeton he earned...
John Richard Steves '29
Jack Steves died on May 25, 1997.Following his graduation in chemical engineering, Jack took a position with E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co. He had assignments at several...
Donald C. Stuart III '63
Jeb Stuart, the longtime co-owner, editor, and publisher of the Town Topics weekly newspaper in Princeton, died June 4, 2008, at home after a lengthy fight with prostate...
Edward Sheldon Stewart '28
Sheldon Stewart, a retired lawyer in NYC, died Jan. 21, 1997, after a long illness. He was in the Class of '27 at Princeton but received his BA degree in 1928.He...
Frank M. Stewart '39
Preceded at Princeton by his father, George B. Stewart Jr. 1906, his grandfather, George B. Stewart Sr. 1876, his brother, George B. Stewart III ’36, and other...
Fred Mustard Stewart '54
Fred Stewart, a best-selling author of popular novels, several of which were adapted for the screen, died of cancer Feb. 7, 2007, at his Manhattan home. Born in...
George B. Stewart III '36
George died Oct. 1, 2003, in Corpus Christi, Texas.He prepared at the Loomis School, now the Loomis Chaffee School. At Princeton he majored in history, played varsity...
Harris Bates Stewart Jr. '45
"Stew" died Apr. 25, 2000, after a battle with cancer. He entered Princeton from Exeter. His Princeton connections include his grandfather, George 1876, his father,...
James Maitland Stewart '32
It was front-page news all over the country when Jimmy Stewart died July 2, 1997, of heart failure at his Beverly Hills home. President Clinton described him as a "great...
James Todd Stewart II '42
Jim died Sept. 9, 1996, in Philadelphia, Pa. Jim prepared for Princeton at Haverford. He was a history major and a member of Cottage Club. Following graduation he spent...
John D. Stewart '37
Eminent national affairs editor, ardent reuner, and king of the chafing dish, Johnnie Stewart died July 1, 1998. He left his wife, Margret (Helen died in 1964),...
John Westcott Stewart '48
Jack Stewart died June 20, 2007, at his Charlottesville, Va., home. He was a local Princeton boy who spent his prep school days at Lawrenceville and lived at home for...
Lever Flegal Stewart '47
It was with a sense of real loss that his many friends received news of the death of Lever Stewart on June 17, 1996, following a prolonged battle with pulmonary...
Maco Stewart III '52
Nearly five years after a successful heart transplant, Maco Stewart died July 11, 1995, of congestive heart failure at his home in Houston, Tex., on July 11, 1995. He...
Samuel Woods Stewart '55
Sam Stewart died Dec. 27, 1996 in Palo Alto. He had been afflicted with parkinsonism for over two decades. Sam was born and reared in Washington, D.C., where he attended...
Sidney A. Stewart '20
SIDNEY STEWART died Dec. 17, 1992, in West Hartford, Conn. He was a former president of Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co. and a nationally known aircraft...
Walter Stewart '20
Walter Stewart, of Atlantic City, N.J., died on Nov. 14, 1989, in the Atlantic City Medical Center. He was 90 and a lifelong resident of Atlantic City. Walt attended...
Wells Stewart '54
Wells Stewart died Sept. 18, 2012, in Kerrville, Texas. Born in San Antonio, he prepared for college at the Lawrenceville School. He became a history major at...
William W. Stewart '45
Wat Stewart died Jan. 22, 2011, after a long illness. Wat entered Princeton from Hotchkiss and was active in musical organizations including choir, Glee Club,...
Fred G. Stickel III '37
Distinguished municipal lawyer Fred Stickel died Dec. 10, 1998, survived by son Fred IV, daughters Virginia, Jane, Elizabeth, and Kathryn, nine grandchildren, and three...
R. Wayne Stickel '41
DICK STICKEL DIED at home on Hilton Head Island Jan. 4, 1991, following years of suffering from neurological disease. He and his wife Anita had moved there from NJ....
Richard Ernest Stifel II '41
THE CANCER that took a leg in 1986 finally took Dick Stifel's life on Mar. 31, 1993. He had been senior partner at Goodsill, Anderson, Quinn, and Stifel, one of Hawaii's...
Richard Pugh Stifel '42
WITH STEEF'S PASSING Nov. 15,1991, the Class has lost one of its most congenial , effervescent and joyful personalities. Typical of his humor was his response to his...
Lloyd Edward Stiffler Jr. *55
Lloyd E. Stiffler Jr. of Magnolia Springs, Ala., consulting civil engineer, died July 19, 1998. He was 64.We have no details of his early life. In 1955 he earned an MS...
John Albert Stillwell '36
JOHN DIED June 11, 1990, in England, where he lived for many yearsHe prepared at the Trinity School in N.Y.C. At Princeton he majored in English and was a member of...
H. Douglas Stine '40
Hub died July 25, 2010, at the Somerville (N.J.) Medical Center. He grew up and raised his family in Plainfield, N.J., later residing in Basking Ridge and St. Luke’s...
J. Gordon Stipe *45
J. GORDON STIPE Jr., aged 74, a professor of geophysics, died Mar. 17, 1988, after a long and courageous battle with cancer, lie was born in oxford, Ga., Jan. 1, 1914....
Jonathan K. C. Stobie '71
Jon died at his home in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sept. 16, just three months after being diagnosed with brain cancer.Born in Oxford, England, Jon attended the Dragon School...
Jerry Scott Stockdale '73
With a great sense of loss, the class notes the death of Jerry Stockdale, a brilliant mind and creative spirit, affectionately known as "Sticky" to his many friends, on...
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...
Kenneth Koken Stocker Jr. '53
Ken Stocker, who made a memorable musical impact during our stay at Princeton, died Feb. 24, 1996. He was a native of Allentown, Pa., and lived there most of his life.A...
Richard J. Stockham Jr. '51
Dick was born Feb. 7, 1929, in Birmingham, Ala., the son of Richard and Charlotte Rushton Stockham. He came to Princeton from Phillips Exeter and majored in mechanical...
Edwin Watson Stockly '47
Ed died Feb. 19, 2002, in comfort at his home at Lake Topez, Nev. Ed had been in failing health for several years and was surrounded by his family. He was 76.Ed came to...
Hervey S. Stockman '44
Herv Stockman, a great American patriot who was of great service to his country, died Feb. 22, 2011, in Albuquerque, N.M. At Princeton, Herv earned numerals in freshman...
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,...
Charles William Stockton '51
Charles was born Feb. 22, 1927, in New York, the son of Kenneth E. Stockton '14. He suffered major organ failures and died June 10, 2005, in Las Vegas.A 1945 graduate of...
Franklin Blackwell Stockton '36
Frank died Sept. 17, 1995, of pneumonia following Alzheimer's disease. He was 80. He graduated from Pittsburgh's Peabody H.S. At Princeton he majored in mathematics and...
Gilchrist B. Stockton Jr. '52
Born in Vienna, Austria, he entered Princeton from Exeter, majored in history, and participated widely in interclub sports for Tower Club. Following graduation, he...
Walter Thaw Stockton '17
WALTER STOCKTON died at the Evanston Hospital on Dec. 3, 1989, after failing slowly over several months. He was born in Chicago, Ill., on Feb. 15, 1895, and in 1896 he...
John Caswell Stoddard '38
John died July 14, 2007, near Mystic, Conn., where he had lived for several years. John grew up in Garden City, N.Y., and came to Princeton from the Pomfret School. He...
Alfred Jehu Stokely '38
Al died July 10, 2005, at his Whitestown, Ind., home after a long illness.At Princeton Al majored in economics, graduated with honors, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa....
Donald Elkinton Stokes '51
Don died of acute leukemia on Jan. 26, 1997. He was among the most distinguished in his field, university, and class. He brought judgment, deep knowledge, leadership,...
Edward Casper Stokes II '38
Ed died Jan. 21, 2005, at the St. Barnabas Hospice of Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J.After preparing at Lawrenceville, he majored in history at Princeton,...
Harold James Stokes Jr. '41
Jim died on Aug. 16, 2000.One of our great Exeter contingent, at Princeton, he was on the football team, majored in political science, and was a member of Colonial Inn.A...
Howard Kemble Stokes '33
Bud Stokes died on Oct. 18, 1997.His hometown was Allenhurst, N.J., and he prepared at Exeter. At college he was a diver on the swimming team and a member of Cloister...
William Blackman John Stokes II '33
JACK STOKES, who for many years was a fixture of '33's presence in Princeton, died at the Mercer Medical Center there Feb. 20, 1991. A memorial service was held at the...
Richard G. Stokinger '60
Rick Stokinger died Feb. 5, 1988. He prepared at Milton Academy where he had been a prefect and played on the football, wrestling, and baseball teams. At Princeton Rick...
Robert Marshall Stolarz '73
Robert Stolarz died June 24, 1996, of heart failure. He was born in 1951, in Jacksonville, N.C., and graduated as class valedictorian from Emerson [N.J.] H.S.At...
Charles B. Stoll '44
CHARLIE DIED of cancer Mar. 25, 1994, at the Cabrim Hospice in Manhattan. He is survived by his widow, Lizanne Adams Stoll, and daughters Alexandra, Vivian, and Diana....
Wilbur Coe Stoll '39
Bill died May 28, 2007, at Virtua Memorial Hospital in Mount Holly, N.J. He had lived most of his life in Plainfield, N.J., where he was an officer in the Crescent...
Edward Carroll Stollenwerck '37
Enthusiastic Princetonian Stoney Stollenwerck died Oct. 5, 1996. He leaves his wife, Mary Joe, whom he married in 1939, daughter Mary, sons Richard '65 and James, and...
Gordon Stollery '70
Gordon died Dec. 12, 2011, while on vacation in the British Virgin Islands. He came to us from Toronto, Ontario, where he excelled at hockey and golf, having finished...
John R. Stoltze '17
JACK STOLTZE died at his home in Afton, Minn., Jan. 16, 1991. He was born in St. Paul Nov. 23, 1895, and attended MR School in Penn. before entering Princeton, where he...
Bruce Stone '70
Bruce died suddenly of a heart attack Mar. 31, 2002. His life was a tapestry of global policy work and wide-ranging personal interests, reflecting his boundless sense of...
Huntley Stone '40
Upon Hunt's death Nov. 17, 2005, his family fondly remembered, as did his classmates, his generosity, humanity, quick mind, and clever wit.He prepared at Marquand...
Jack L. Stone '49 *53
Jack died Oct. 28, 2003, of complications from a stroke he suffered seven years ago. He was 76.Jack served in the Navy during WWII. At Princeton he majored in electrical...
James L. Stone Jr. '41
Jim died Nov. 10, 2010, in Cincinnati. He came to Princeton from Chestnut Hill Academy and the Hun School. At Princeton he majored in biology and roomed with Bob...
Joel Stone '52
Joel Stone died Feb. 2, 2007. He resided in Concord, Mass. Joel believed that it wasn’t possible to have received a better education than the one he had at James Madison...
John M. Stone III '86
John Stone, of Old Greenwich, Conn., died on Mar. 26 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Born in St. Charles, Ill., he came to Princeton from Phillips Exeter...
John McWilliams Stone Jr. '50
Jack died May 15, 2009. He was born in Chicago and graduated from Exeter. At Princeton he majored in economics and belonged to Cannon. Jack was the stroke of the...
Samuel Z. Stone '54
Sam died Dec. 8, 2006, at his home in San Jose, Costa Rica. Born in New Orleans, he subsequently lived in Madisonville, La., Costa Rica, and Chile. At Princeton he wrote...
Warren Sanford Stone '30
Warren Stone died Jan. 18, 1997. He was born Jan. 8, 1908, in Cuba. He prepared at Westminster School and belonged to Elm.In 1935 he married Margaret South. An active...
Michael Stonehill '61
Born in NYC on Mar. 10, 1940, Mike Stonehill died on Apr. 6, 1999, in Boca Raton. Raised in Plainfield, N.J., Mike was a graduate of Plainfield H.S.At Princeton, he...
Bart Albert Stoner Jr. '48
Bart Stoner died peacefully Jan. 13, 2007, at his New Hope, Pa., home. Always loyal to and active in University and class initiatives, he was our vice president twice...
Frank Rahm Stoner III '50
Frank Stoner died Dec. 26, 1997, at his home in Easton, Md., after a long bout with cancer. He was 69.Frank prepared at St. Andrews School in Middleton, Del., where he...
George G. Stoner *39
George G. Stoner, highly versatile retired polymer chemist, poet, and churchman, died Feb. 1, 1995, in Suffern, N.Y. He was 83. Born in Wilkinsburg, Penn., he graduated...
Norman A. Stoner '37
Norman Stoner died Nov. 20, 2011. Before coming to Princeton, he graduated from Oil City (Pa.) High School, where he was on the debating team. He attended Allegheny...
Geary L. Stonesifer Jr. '55
Geary, who established the surgery department at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, died Nov. 28, 2000, in Owings Mills, Md., of a blood clot. Until he retired in 1988...
Oliver G. Stonington '37
Outstanding urologist Stony or Ollie Stonington died Feb. 4, 1998. He left five children by his first wife Kate, who died in 1983, three stepdaughters by Anne, his...
Robert Winthrop Storer '36
Bob died Dec. 14, 2008. The place of his death is unverified but is believed to be either Ann Arbor, Mich., where he lived for many years, or Harlan, Iowa, where his...
Richard B. Stothers '60
Richard died of a heart attack June 28, 2011. at his home in New York City. Raised in New York, Richard graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, where he was a member of...
Raymond Tracey Stotler Jr. '39
Ray died June 11, 2008, in Dallas, Texas, 10 days after celebrating his 92nd birthday. The cause was complications from a ruptured appendix. Ray began his lifetime...
Gilmore Stott *51
Gilmore Stott, retired educator and mentor to generations of Swarthmore students, died of a heart attack May 4, 2005. He was 91.Born in Indiana, Stott earned his...
Wayne Oliver Stoughton '31
WAYNE DIED Mar. 28, 1993, in Greensboro, N.C. He prepared at Mercersburg Academy. While at Princeton, Wayne won second prize in the Walter F. Hope Speaking Contest, was...
Charles Langdon Stout '53
Charlie, who arrived from Baltimore with the sizable Gilman contingent and who, it is believed, later became the youngest partner of a New York Stock Exchange firm, died...
Frederick L. Stout Jr. '29
FRITZ DIED Nov. 19, 1993. He prepared at Ben Avon (Penn.) H.S. and at Princeton Prep. At Princeton, he was basketball manager, on the Interclub Committee, and in the...
Gilbert M. Stout '44
Gil died May 31, 2011, in Scituate, Mass. Coming to Princeton from Blair Academy, he roomed with Al McCree and Bob Holzl, joined Dial Lodge, and majored in history. Gil...
Joseph Suydam Stout '28
Joe Stout died Apr. 30, 1995, in Aiken, S.C. He prepared for Princeton at St. Paul's in Concord, N.H. At Princeton he majored in history and was a member of Court...
Frank C. Stover '30
Frank C. Stover died Dec. 13, 1998. He had lived in Winnetka, Ill., for 79 years. He came to Princeton from New Trier H.S. and was president of Dial Lodge in his senior...
Pierre Stralem '32
It was recently learned that Pete Stralem died Dec. 3, 1997, in Houston, Tex.Pete was an investment banker, manager of the New York Stock Exchange, and partner of the...
Robert Paul Stranahan '51
Bob died Nov. 20, 1997, of cancer at his home in Bethesda, Md. He retired in 1994 from the noted Washington, D.C., law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where he had...
Stephen Bartow Strang Jr. '57
Bart died Dec. 3, 2009. According to his wife, Mary, the cause of his death was the Korean War wounds he suffered. He had been in a wheelchair for more than three years,...
John R. Strassburger *76
John Strassburger, president emeritus of Ursinus College who retired June 30 after 15 years as president, died Sept. 22, 2010, after a long battle with cancer. He was...
John B. Strater '37
John Strater, son of C. Helme Strater '06, died Dec. 29, 1996, of Alzheimer's (also afflicting his wife, Jean).He attended Choate and was involved in the Glee Club and...
John Caryl Stratton '49
John, one of the oldest members of our class, was 80 when he died on Apr. 5, 2001, of cancer in Naples, Fla.He came to Princeton as a married veteran with a DFC and...
John Edward Stratton '50
JOHN STRATTON died in Bedford, N.H., Jan. 2, 1993, after a brief illness. John and Bobbie had enthusiastically attended several minireunions and were planning to come to...
Oscar Straus II '36
Oscar died Jan. 11, 2013 in Bellport, N.Y., from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was born in New York City and attended St. Paul’s School. At Princeton,...
Herbert Helmut Strauss '51
We lost our friend Herb to cancer. He was born in Offenbach, Germany, May 22, 1929, and came to the United States in 1937, where he graduated from Cleveland Heights...
George Strawbridge Sr. '33
ALTHOUGH GEORGE Strawbridge was referred to by the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER as stockbroker and golfer, most of us would probably have said steeplechase rider. George died...
William J. Strawbridge '44
Windy died Apr. 8, 1999, in Cape Coral, Fla., where he had resided since 1986. Hardly well enough to attend our 50th, he came nonetheless, and in spite of continued...
Norman Strax '57
Norm died of prostate cancer in NYC. He was 66. Born in Brooklyn and raised in NYC and Long Island, he played the banjo and developed a love for open space and the...
George D. Strayer Jr. '27
G. D. died of pneumonia after a brief illness Mar. 26, 2003, in Seattle. Born in NYC, he prepared for Princeton at Horace Mann School. At Princeton he rowed on the...
John Anthony Strazza '36
Jack died May 14, 2001. He was 86. A graduate of Bloomfield [N.J.] HS in 1933, he transferred from Georgetown to Princeton, where he majored in biology. In 1940 he...
Lefferts Strebeigh '36
LEFF DIED Oct. 10, 1990 in San Antonio, Tex., after a brief illness. He prepared at Kent School. At Princeton he was a member of Colonial Club. He left Princeton at the...
Robert Mcelrath Strebeigh '45
Bob Strebeigh died Nov. 13, 2004, in St. Petersburg, Fla.Known by his friends as "Robin," he entered Princeton from Kent School and joined Elm Club. His Princeton...
George E. Strebel '14
George Strebel died Oct. 17, 1993. He was 100. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living alumnus of the university and the last surviving member of the Class of...
Donald Macquem Street '19
DONALD MACQUEEN STREET died Oct. 31, 1990, in Westerly, R.I. He was born in Chicago, Aug. 28, 1898, prepared at University School, and left Princeton in Mar. 1918. to...
Julian Street Jr. '25
Pete Street, son of the noted author, was born in N.Y.C. Oct. 26, 1902. He died in Norfolk, Conn., Jan. 17, 1995. He prepared at Gilman School.Pete was a prominent,...
James Clark Streett Jr. '36 *39
JIM DIED on June 28, 1989, in Ft. Worth, Tex., where he had lived for 48 years. He was born on Aug. 13, 1913, in St. Louis, Mo., and prepared at the John Burroughs...
Raymond G. Strobl '47
Raymond Strobl died Jan. 18, 2012, in Cranford, N.J. Ray grew up in Maywood, Ill., where he met Wynifred Erresberger. Ray’s family moved to New Jersey, and he...
Peter Wetherill Stroh '51
Peter died of brain cancer Sept. 17, 2002, at home. He came to Princeton from St. Paul's School, majored in the Woodrow Wilson School, roomed with Rufus Finch, Francis...
John William Strohecker '40
Bill died Jan. 17, 2002, in Oak Ridge, Tenn., his beloved home since graduation. He prepared at Bethlehem [Pa.] HS, following his grandfather (1893) to Princeton.He...
Richard Maynard Strohm '49
Richard Strohm died Nov. 29, 1996. Dick prepared at Exeter. He left Princeton to enter West Point, from which he graduated in 1950, then served with the First Engineer...
Frederick S. Strong III '35
Fritz died May 22, 2010, in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Michigan, he came to Princeton from St. Paul’s School. A history major,...
John Erwin Strong '53
NYC native John Strong, who served faithfully and unerringly as '53 treasurer under five class presidents for a record 20 years, died Jan. 19, 1998, in Vero Beach, Fla.,...
Robert Church Stroud '40
Pulmonary health scientist Bob Stroud died from cardiac arrest Aug. 13, 1998, in Bethesda, Md. He prepared at Brooklyn Poly Prep. At Princeton he majored in biology with...
William Dixon Boulton Stroud '39
Gus died of pneumonia April 21, 2005, at home in West Grove, Pa.Widely known as a nature preserver, he and his wife, Joan, were co-founders of the Stroud Water Research...
Carleton M. Strouss '29
CARL DIED Feb. 2, 1994, in Carlisle, Penn. He prepared at Mt. Carmel H.S. and Mercersburg. At Princeton, he was a firstplace medalist in cross-country and was in the...
Philip H. Strubing II '29
PHIL DIED Jan. 2, 1994, in Memphis, where he had lived for some years after his Philadelphia law career. He prepared for college at Pomfret and Lawrenceville. His great...
Paul Victor Strumia '49
Paul died July 4, 1994, at Bryn Mawr Hospital after a brief illness and complications from a brain tumor.He was born Feb. 29, 1928, in Philadelphia and prepared at the...
Andrew D. Strupp '69
Andrew D. Strupp ’69 Andrew Strupp died suddenly March 26, 2009, after a brief illness. Born in Elmshorn, Germany, he had lived in Salt Point, N.Y., since 1986. At...
Albert Bartlett Stryker Jr. '53
Bart died peacefully of lung cancer Dec. 4, 2009, at Hope Hospice in Bonita Springs, Fla., surrounded by his loving wife of 57 years, the former Catharine “Kitty” Duane;...
William H. Stuart Jr. '40
Bill died Feb. 28, 2008, at Bay Path Nursing Center in Duxbury, Mass. He was a graduate of Asbury Park (N.J.) High School and Mercersburg Academy. At Princeton, he...
Donald Miller Stuart '42
DON DIED Oct. 29, 1989, in Pearl River, N.Y., his home for Over 40 years, following a stroke suffered about a month earlier. At the time of his death, Don was still...
John Stuart Jr. '36
Jack died Apr. 25, 1997. He was 85. He was the son of John Stuart '00, a former Princeton trustee. Some eight years ago, he moved from Arizona to Bradenton, Fla.Jack...
Thomas Walter Stuart '48
Tom Stuart, who spent his entire life in the Villanova/Haverford area of Pennsylvania, died June 2, 2009. For the final 59 years he found his bride, Joan, “a great...
Richard A. Stubbing *68
Richard Anthony Stubbing died Nov. 11, 2004, in Durham, N.C. He was 74.Author of The Defense Game and public commentator on national defense and security, Richard...
Daniel Kemp Stuckey II '42
DAN DIED unexpectedly June 8, 1993, in Bangor, Maine. He retired in 1983 from Exeter Academy, where he had served as assistant principal for development and alumni...
James S. Studdiford II '37
Navy commander and avid golfer (with a hole in one), Jim Studdiford died Oct. 29, 1998. His wife of 59 years, Billie, predeceased him in 1997; he left son Jim III '65,...
William E. Studdiford III '54
William Studdiford died Oct. 21, 2001, in Brick Hospital from pneumonia. Born in New York, he prepared for Princeton at St. Bernard's and South Kent schools. He majored...
Arthur Stull '21
ARTHUR STULL DIED on July 7, 1991, of cardiac arrest. He was 92 years old. Born in Alderson, Penn., he prepared at Mercersburg Academy. At Princeton he was a member of...
Lee Thompson Stull '48
Lee Stull died Apr. 20, 1997. He was 73.A native of St. Davids, Pa., Lee was a graduate of Mt. Hermon Academy and was in the Army Air Force from 1942-45. He graduated in...
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...
Frederick Sturges III '36
Within a month of his 98th birthday, Fred died May 4, 2009, in Old Lyme, Conn. He was the son of Frederick Sturges Jr. 1897. Fred played hockey and lacrosse before...
John Adams Sturges '25
John Sturges was born in Fairfield, Conn., Apr. 24, 1903, and died in a retirement home in Cheshire, Conn., Feb. 2, 1996. He came to us from Hotchkiss, rooming freshman...
John Masury Sturges '28
JACK STURGES died Aug. 6, 1991, in Southampton, N.Y. He prepared for Princeton at Lawrenceville, and in college he majored in modern languages, was a member of Charter...
Philemon Fowler Sturges III '52 *55
Phil died in Boston May 24, 2005, of a lung infection.Born in Bend, Ore., Phil graduated from the Lennox School and attended Trinity College in Hartford before entering...
Adolph Suehsdorf III '38
Adie Suehsdorf died Dec. 20, 2008, in Sonoma, Calif. He came to Princeton from College High School in Upper Montclair, N.J., and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in...
Sue-Jean Lee Suettinger '70
Sue-Jean died peacefully June 29, 2011, at her home with her family at her side. She had battled leukemia for nearly 11 months, combining treatment at Johns Hopkins...
William A. Sugden '57
Bill died at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia July 10, 2004. He was 69.A resident of Doylestown, Pa., he was born and raised in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He prepared at...
Herbert L. Sugerman '55
Herbert Sugerman died March 6, 2011, at Banner Hospice in Phoenix, Ariz., from complications of Parkinson’s disease. Son of Charles Sugerman, Herb was born in...
Edwin Suib '48
Ed Suib loved his time at Princeton, where he was active in WPRU, the Model Senate, and Court Club. He graduated with an A.B. in psychology. His loyalty to and...
Kenneth J. Suid '62
Kenneth J. Suid died June 30, 2006, in Portland, Ore. He graduated from Shaker Heights (Ohio) High School before attending Princeton, where he majored in politics, was...
Kingsley Scott Suits '42
Kingsley Suits of Webster Grove, Mo., died May 3, 2010, in Houston, Texas. After Princeton, Kingsley spent three and a half years in the Army and was discharged as a...
Prasobsukh Sukhsvasti '35
His Serene Highness Prince Prasobsukh Sukhsvasti died peacefully of cancer in Bangkok on Aug. 12, 1985. Known to us as Ned, he was the 20th son of Lt. Gen. H.R.H. Prince...
Daniel F. Sullivan Jr. '37
Dan died July 11, 2000. At Far Rockaway [N.Y.] H.S., he was involved in swimming, student government, and the Honor Society. At Princeton, he majored in economics, was...
George Andrew Sullivan Jr. '70
George, or "Sully," died unexpectedly on Mar. 5, 2002. Originally from Haddonfield, N.J., where he attended Haddonfield Memorial HS prior to Princeton, he spent the last...
Joseph A. Sullivan '59
"Bo" Sullivan, business executive, gregarious politician, and community leader, died in Morristown, N.J., on Mar. 13, 2000, following a stroke.Bo came to Princeton from...
Paul Gaither Sullivan '48
Paul Sullivan died Feb. 4, 2009, in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 82. He was a graduate of Scarsdale (N.Y.) High School and served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946. At...
Robert Joseph Sullivan '39
Sully died of cancer Nov. 21, 2001, at the Medical Center at Princeton. He never lost his sense of humor, honed in his days as managing editor of The Tiger. He was...
Roger H. Sullivan '48
Roger Sullivan died July 9, 2012, at home in McLean, Va. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Luke Catholic Church in McLean. Rog was a graduate of...
Terrence Keith Sullivan '53
After several years battling cancer, Terry died July 25, 2008, in Chattanooga, Tenn., his hometown. Terry spent three years as a Navy supply officer on ships in the...
Gordon Summerfeldt '33
GORDON SUMMERFELDT died May 8, 1991, in Tavernier, Fla. A funeral service was held May 12 at the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home in Princeton.Gordon was born Nov. 30,1910, in...
Charles L. W. Summerill '32
Charles W. L. Summerill, a distinguished judge, died on May 16, 2000, in the Hunterdon Care Center, Raritan Township, N.J.Chick prepared at Penn Charter and Exeter...
Richard Weeks Summey '28
DICK SUMMEY died Oct. 10, 1992, at the St. Joseph Medical Center in Stamford. He went to Taft School. At Princeton, he majored in history and was a member of Cap and...
Ib Eric Sundt '53
Eric captained the freshman swimming team, was a frogman on the Navy's Underwater Demolition Team, and went on to make a bigger splash in commercial real estate....
Robert Henry Super '35 *41
Dr. Bob Super, professor emeritus of English at the U. of Michigan, died of a massive stroke Mar. 29, 1996. Born in Wilkes Barre and rooming for four years with George...
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...
Henderson Supplee Jr. '26
Henderson Supplee Jr., affectionately known as "Wooz," died Feb. 3, 1992, at age 88, in Bryn Mawr Hospital, following surgery several weeks before. We have lost a leader...
J. Franklin Supplee III '41
FRANK SUPPLEE, a specialist in internal medicine, died Aug. 21, 1991, in Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital, after a short illness. He had planned to attend our 50th...
Stuart Surick '70
Stuart died on July 22, 2001, of heart failure while on a camping trip with his son. He was born in Philadelphia and graduated from Cheltenham HS. At Princeton he was a...
Truman L. Susman '58
Truman died of pancreatic cancer Oct. 5, 2008, in New York City. He came to us from Ladue (Mo.) High School, where he was captain of the football team. At Princeton he...
Donald James Sutherland '53
Don, fondly known by most of us as "Suds," died at his Long Island home on Aug. 10, 2002.He was the son of Lavinia and Conrad J. Sutherland '24, grew up in Manhasset,...
Dwight Dierks Sutherland '45
Dwight died in Kansas City Oct. 25, 2003.He prepared for Princeton at Lawrence-ville and roomed with his brother John '45, E. E. Norris, Rufus Page, and Laddie Sanford....
Harold Amerman Sutphen Jr. '48
Following service in the Army from 1944 to 1946, Harold joined our class in February 1947. Prior to that he graduated from Exeter. At Princeton he was member of Dial...
Duncan D. Sutphen III '55
Terry Sutphen died Feb. 1, 2008, in Vero Beach, Fla., after a lifetime of achievement and service. Coming to Princeton from Hotchkiss, he majored in geology, lettered in...
Richard W. Sutphen '40
Dick died Apr. 7, 2002. Most of his post-Princeton years were happily spent in the Westport, Conn., area.An Eagle Scout, he prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy, then...
John Otto Richard Sutter '58
John died suddenly of heart disease Aug. 31, 2003. Prior to his death he had been training for a triathlon.John entered Princeton from the John Burroughs School in St....
Edwin White Sutton Jr. '35
White died Mar. 14, 1999, in Laguna Hills, Calif., of bilateral pneumonia. He was 85. Born and raised in Honolulu, he prepared at Punahou Academy, where he played on the...
Thomas R. Swabey '57
Tom died Feb. 5, 2000, in Ottawa, Ontario.Tom prepared for Princeton at Ridley College, where he lettered in football, track and field, basketball, and cricket and was...
Frederick Robbins Swan '33
Fred Swan died Nov. 18, 1999 on board the Sea Cloud as he sailed the Caribbean. He was 86.Fred was born in Hartford and lived most of his life in North Canton, Conn. He...
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....
Henry Jay Swanger '72
Henry died in San Diego July 2, 2004, after a heroic, three-and-a-half-year battle with cancer.He came to Princeton from Cedar Crest High School in Lebanon, Pa. His...
S. Donovan Swann Jr. '34
Don Swann, a summer theater impresario and etcher following his father, Don Sr., and mother, Rita, died of heart failure Feb. 22, 1998, in Baltimore, where he was born....
Katherine Mackenzie Swanson '05
Katie, at the young age of 22, died in her sleep Sept. 20, 2005, at her home in Hillsborough, Calif.Katie grew up in California and graduated from the Menlo School. Upon...
Herbert Miller Swartz '50
Herb Swartz died Jan. 25, 1999, of heart failure at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, Calif. He was 69, and his health had been compromised by arthritis.Herb prepared at...
Howard Robert Swearer '54
HOWIE SWEARER died, after a year-long battle with cancer on Oct. 19, 1991. In the words of Chancellor Charles Tillinghast of Brown Univ. in a memorial given there, Howie...
George E. Sweazey *30
GEORGE E. SWEAZEY, retired Patton Professor of Homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary, died Jan. 23, 1992, at age 86. A native of Salt Lake City, he graduated from...
Lawrence K. Sweeney '40
"The Lion" died Sept. 9, 2003, in Rhinebeck, N.Y. His lifelong athletic pursuits were dampened in recent years but, ever the optimist, he said, "I can still play golf,...
David Ailing Sweeny '70
DAVID ALLING SWEENY died Nov. 27, 1992, after valiantly battling brain cancer for well over a year.Dave entered Princeton from Scotch PlainsFanwood H.S., in central New...
Channing E Sweet '21
CHANNING FULLERTON SWEET, a rancher and livestock businessman, died in Colorado Springs Mar. 5, 1994. He was 95. At Princeton, he was a high jumper on the track team and...
Waldo Earle Sweet *43
WALDO EARLE SWEET, professor of Latin, emeritus, at the Univ. of Michigan, died Sept. 15, 1992, at the age of 89, after an extended illness. The son of faculty member...
George K. Sweetnam *96
George K. Sweetnam, PhD in the history of science, lecturer in the history of science at Princeton, died on Sept. 5, 1997, at his home in Manchester, Conn. He had...
Ernest William Swegler Jr. '45
Bill Swegler died Oct. 27, 1998, at his home in Hinsdale, Ill., after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.Bill entered Princeton from the University School and was a...
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...
Randolphe Pierson Swenson '45
Perry died Sept. 13, 2008. He prepared at Lawrenceville and joined Quadrangle Club at Princeton. His studies were interrupted by service as a navigator with the 13th...
Mark W. Swetland Jr. '42
Mark Swetland died Feb. 20, 2013. He was the son of Mark Swetland Sr. *25 and Blanche Compton. Mark prepared at Blair Academy and Peddie, where he was valedictorian...
Burr S. Swezey '40
Burr, a legend in his time, died Nov. 1, 2007, at his home in Lafayette, Ind. He prepared at Jefferson High School in Lafayette and at Exeter Academy. At Princeton, he...
Shippen Swift '56
Shippen died of colon cancer Aug. 27, 2002, in Hancock, Maine, where he had lived for 11 years. A military historian, he spent many years in the publishing business. He...
Thomas Henry Swift '29
TOM DIED Apr. 3, 1992. He had prepared for college at Mercersburg. At Princeton he rowed on the freshman crew and was on the rifle team, Ile roomed with Bud Whitehouse....
Charles Justin Swigert '61
Renowned research scientist and community leader Charlie Swigert died of idiopathic anemia on July 8, 1999, at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif.Born and raised in...
Charles P. Swiggart '50
Pete died Feb. 14, 2004, in Brooklyn, N.Y.Born in Nashville, Tenn., Pete attended Duncan College Preparatory School. He enrolled at Vanderbilt, but left to serve in the...
Laurence J. Swinburne '49
Larry died on Jan. 1, 2000, in Charlottesville, Va., of heart attack. He was 75.He attended our 50th Reunion. He came to Princeton from Oyster Bay H.S. on Long Island...
John M. Swinford '54
John Swinford died Feb. 3, 2013, at Cedar Ridge Health Care Campus in Cynthiana, Ky., the town where he was born and graduated from high school. At Princeton, he...
Richard Swinnerton Jr. '54
Dick died Dec. 17, 1999. He grew up in the town of Princeton. While attending the university he married the former Beverly Conner. He a member of Charter Club and...
Herbert Bayard Swope Jr. '36
Although he had the name of a world-famous family (his father was the first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting, in 1917), he was known to us simply as Ottie....
Robert Hackworth Swope '60
Bob Swope died of lung cancer Oct. 29, 2006, at his home in Annapolis, Md. A native of the District of Columbia, Bob came to Princeton from St. Alban’s School. He...
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...
William Sword Jr. '76
Our class tragically lost William Sword when a tree struck him Oct. 29, 2012, during Superstorm Sandy. Bill will be sorely missed by his soulmate and wife of 33...
Eugene Beauharnais Sydnor Jr. '39
Gene died Sept. 9, 2003, in Richmond, where he lived all his life except for four years in the Navy during WWII. He served as an officer on the destroyer USS Shubrick...
David W. Sykes '52
David came to Princeton from the Peddie School. He majored in politics, belonged to Quadrangle, and roomed with Biddle Worthington and Warren Bruce. After service in...
Gresham M. Sykes '44
Grex died Oct. 29, 2010, in Charlottesville, Va., where he had retired in 1987 after 14 years as a professor and chairman of the sociology department at the University...
Langthorne Sykes '51
Lang was born Feb. 27, 1930, in Newark, N.J., and came to us from South Pasadena-San Marino High in California. He died July 17, 2005, in Oceanside, Calif. At...
Peter M. Sykes '37
Lawyer and bridge whiz Peter Sykes died on his 83rd birthday, Oct. 10, 1997, after battling two bouts of cancer. His first wife, Barbara, died in 1969, and his second,...
John D. Sylvester '37
QUIET, FAITHFUL reuner Johnny Sylvester died Jan. 8, 1990, of natural causes, leaving a son, John Jr., and two grandchildren. His wife, Marita, whom he married in 1942,...
Walter Rankin Sylvester '39
Walt died March 12, 2008, in Washington (D.C.) Hospital Center following an auto accident that led to a heart attack, the discovery of colon cancer, and, finally,...
Francis C. Symonds Jr. '47
dnFRANK DIED Aug. 4, 1990, following complications from major heart attack. He born in Fayetteville, N.C., but lived most of his adult life in Tenafly, NJ. He had gone...
Michael J. Szady '90
Mike Szady, a resident of Hamilton, Mass., died of cancer May 16, 2012. At Princeton, Mike played defensive tackle on the football team through his junior year, when he...
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