Princeton Alumni Weekly: Memorials

John Livingston Adam '24

John L. Adam died on Aug. 23, 1989. He left Princeton prior to graduation and lived in France for many years. In recent years, John resided in Clinton and Flemington,...

Hubert Alyea '24 *28

Hubert Newcombe Alyea, a professor emeritus of chemistry at Princeton, died in Hightstown, N.J., Oct. 19, 1996. He was 93.While at Princeton, Hubert played cello for the...

Ira Miles Appel '24

IRA APPEL died in Tucson May 1, 1990. He prepared at the Princeton Prep. He left Princeton in 1921 to engage in business. Ira was associated with the Farmers' Deposit...

Charles Lee Austin '24

LEE AUSTIN died Aug. 19, 1992, in Barnstable, Mass., where he had lived since retirement in 1958. Lee prepared at the Port Chester High School. At Princeton he rowed on...

John Barclay Jr. '24

Jack died in his sleep in the early morning hours of Mar. 20, 1995, at his lifelong residence in Greensburg, Penn. "The Baron," as he was also known, would have been 95...

J. Paul Barringer '24

The Class of '24 and the Princeton community lost a strong advocate on Aug., 15, 1996, when Paul Barringer died at home in Princeton of congestive heart failure. He was...

Richard T. Beebe '24

Dr. Richard Beebe died July 28, 1998. He was 96. Born in Great Barrington, Mass., he was the son, nephew, and grandson of country doctors, and often accompanied his...

Howard Carson Blake '24

Howard C. Blake died May 20, 1996. He was 92. He was born in St. Louis, Mo. He prepared at Lawrenceville. While at Princeton, Howard met Frank Buchman, founder of the...

Crosby N. Boyd '24

Crosby died Aug. 12, 1995, at his summer home in Cape May, N.J.He was born Jan. 2, 1903, in Philadelphia. He prepared for Princeton at Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia...

Henry William Bradbury '24

Henry William Bradbury died Feb. 15, 1995. Born July 30, 1901, in Kingston, Pa., he was the son of an electrical engineer who worked for Kingston Coal Co.He was a member...

William Fuller Parmer Brawner '24

W. P. FULLER BRAWNER DIED Mar. 11, 1991. Shortly after graduation he joined his family business, the W. P. Fuller paint company in San Francisco. It was started by his...

Adelmer Rogers Bryon '24

After a long illness, the Rev. Adelmer Rogers Bryon died Oct. 24, 1995. He was 96.Adelmer was born in Ridgefield, Conn., the son of a doctor. Known by three nicknames,...

Edmund Burke Jr. '24

WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED by Edmund Burke's daughter Nancy Burke Ross that her father died in the Amherst Presbyterian Nursing Center in Williamsville, N..H., on May 13,...

Alonzo Church '24 *27

Alonzo Church, a philosopher and mathematician, died Aug. 11, 1995. He was 92. He attended Ridgefield School in Connecticut, where he helped edit the school magazine. At...

Joseph La De Carl Cour Jr. '24

CARL DE LA COUR died Aug. 5, 1992, in Jupiter, Fla., where he had lived for the past 15 years. Before retiring in 1958, he was a director, V.P., and manager of the...

Edward Luis Crabbe '24

ED CRABBE died in Torns River, NJ., May 1, 1990. He joined the Farmers Loan & Trust Co. shortly after graduation. When that company was taken over by the First National...

Donaldson Cresswell '24

Donaldson Cresswell died on Nov. 18, 1989. Don prepared at St. Luke's School; after graduation he studied law at Penn. He was executive V.P. of Philadelphia Saving Fund...

William P. E. Doelger '24

PETER DOELGER died at his home in West Palm Beach on Nov. 12, 1992. After graduation, Peter received an M.S. from M.I.T. and worked there as a research associate until...

Ranald G. Dunning '24 *25

Ranald Dunning died July 15, 1998, at Princeton Medical Center. Born Oct. 6, 1902, in Lyndon, Ohio, to Smith G. Dunning 1892 and Agnes Powers, Ran attended St. Mary's...

Mackinnon Ellis '24

MACKINNON ELLIS DIED Oct. 25, 1993. Kin prepared at Culver. After graduating with our class, he attended the Univ. of Pennsylvania Medical School. He interned at the...

Roger Sheffield Ellis '24

ROGER ELLLIS died Nov. 20, 1990, in Woodstock, Vt. A native of Buffalo, he was first associated with the Pierce Arrow Co. and finally with the Buffalo Envelope Co. He...

Martin Ryerson Everett '24

MARTIN RYERSON EVERETT DIED Oct. 9, 1991 in Somers, N.Y. He prepared for Princeton at the East Orange High School. He married Katherine Van Keuren on Sept. 20, 1930 in...

Perry Edward Faeth '24

PERRY FAETH died Feb. 14, 1993, in Kansas City. He left Princeton in June 1923 to take charge of the Stowe Hardware & Supply Co. in Kansas City. He was active in civic...

Carl Castle Fischer '24

CARL FISCHER died on Dec. 23, 1989. He prepared at Franklin High School. After graduation he studied medicine at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia and did post...

Lyman Gillan Gilmore '24

LYMAN GILMORE died May 4, 1992, in Colorado Springs where he had been living the past two years. After graduation he taught history at the Harvard Preparatory School. He...

Adam Otis Graeser '24

OTIS GREASER DIED in Cincinnati, where he had spent all his life, on June 16, 1992, He prepared at Hughes High School. After graduation from Princeton, he received an...

Thomas M. Green Jr. '24

AFTER A PERIOD of deteriorating health, Thomas M. Green Jr. died in his sleep on Feb. 7, 1991. He was born in Seattle, Wash., on Jan. 15, 1902.He attended Lawrenceville...

Henry B. Guthrie Jr. '24

Henry Guthrie died Feb. 12, 1997, at his home in Bedford, N.Y. Hank prepared at Hill School, showing early promise in the dramatic club and in work on the school...

William Mcafee Hanna '24

BILL HANNA died on Dec. 4, 1989. He transferred from Lehigh in September 1921. After graduating with our Class he attended the Princeton Graduate School from which he...

Malcolm Dexter Haven '24

MALCOM DEXTER HAVEN, a Charleston civic leader, artist, author, and retired president of the oil equipment firm of Livingston and Haven, died Sept. 18, 1993. Mat was...

Edward Korn Hessberg '24

EDDIE HESSBERG died June 18, 1990. He prepared for Princeton at the Columbia Grammar school. After graduation he received his J.D. from Columbia Univ. He was a counsel...

Thomas Kiernan '24

Thomas Kiernan died Jan. 17, 1996, of congestive heart failure in Chatham, N.J. He was 93. Tom was a loyal and supportive member of the class, regularly attending our...

David Mitchell Kydd '24

Dr. David M. Kydd died in Cooperstown, N.Y., Apr. 20, 1995. He had been in declining health for several months.David had a long and distinguished career as a physician,...

George Edward Leh '24

GEORGE EDWARD LEH died Nov. 25, 1992, in Allentown, Penn., where he had lived all his life. Eddy was a senior partner of a department store chain, H. Leh & Co., that was...

Hillard Joseph Lenox '24

JOE, WHO WAS better known by his nickname, Natty, died Apr. 18, 1992, at his home in Manhasset, N.Y., after a series of strokes. He attended high school in Ogdensburg,...

Robert Wilson Lewis Jr. '24

ROBERT WILSON LEWIS JR., retired attorney and resident of S. Pasadena for more than 30 years, died Sept. 17, 1991. After graduation from Princeton and then Harvard...

Arthur David Lionberger '24

Arthur Lionberger, known to us as “Art” or “A.D.,” died July 4, 2008, at age 105 in Rochester, Mass. At his death he was not only the oldest resident of Rochester but...

Bernard Penn-Gaskell Macgrann '24

PENN MACGRANN died unexpectedly in Philadelphia on Sept. 30, 1989. He prepared for Princeton at Haverford and Mercersburg. After graduation, he studied law at...

Raymond Harold Maurice '24

RAY MAURICE died Nov. 25, 1990 in Montclair, NJ., where he had lived for over 45 years. He prepared at the BerkeleyIrving School and transferred to Princeton from Brown...

Robert Wallace Mcclenahan '24

ROBERT MCCLENALLAN DIED Oct. 31, 1993, in Barnstable, where he had lived since 1978. Wally was born in Egypt, where he lived until 1918. He was fluent in French and...

John Blanchard Miles Jr. '24

JOHNNIE MILES DIED Aug. 28, 1990. After graduating with our Class, he received a Ph.D. in physics from die Graduate School in 1929. Early In his career he was a member...

Fredric B. Mohle '24

FRED MOHLE died in Ponte Vedra on Sept. 27, 1992. He was a native of Brooklyn. He prepared for Princeton at Erasmus Hall. He was associated with the Tide Water Oil Co....

Richard A. Morehouse '24

Richard, of Overland Park, Kans., died on June 19, 2000. He graduated from the Lawrenceville School in 1920.In 1926, he enlisted in the Air Corps Reserve in Columbus,...

Edward Naumburg Jr. '24

Ned died June 28, 1995, in Greenwich, Conn. He was born Jan. 19, 1903, in N.Y.C. and attended the Ethical Culture School.At Princeton he was in the orchestra and several...

Frank Herbert Parke '24

Frank Parke died in Little Rock, Ark., on July 28, 1989. He transferred to Princeton from the Univ. of the South in 1920.He was the retired president of the Democrat...

Frederick Blake Payne '24

FREDERICK PAYNE died at his home in Clogheen, Ireland, on Dec. 4, 1989. He left Princeton in his junior year to join Tucker, Anthony and Co., with which he was...

Joseph Wright Powell Jr. '24

JOSEPH W. POWELL JR. died Jan. 30, 1993, in North Hill, Mass. He prepared at Milton Academy. After graduating with our Class, he earned an M.A. from Harvard, in 1926. He...

Paul Walworth Purmort '24

PAUL WALWORTH PURNIORT DIED Jan 13, 1991, in Sarasota. He prepared at Wert (Ohio) High School and transferred from Miami Univ., Oxford, Ohio, in 1921. He lived in...

Carleton Putnam '24

Carleton Putnam, airline pioneer, biographer, and writer, died Mar. 5, 1998, at his home in Charlottesville, Va., of pneumonia.After Princeton, he became an aviation...

Ridenour Raymond '24

Ridenour died Oct. 12, 2000, in his home in Kansas City. He was almost 99. He entered Princeton from Lawrenceville School, ran track, and became captain of the...

Olney Martin Raymond '24

Olney was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec. 18, 1902, to John William Raymond (who was connected with the Central Leather Co. in NYC) and Hannah Valentine. He died in...

William Werner Reidemeister '24

BILL REIDEMEISTER died May 23, 1990. He prepared at the Pawling School. Bill left Princeton in Nov. 1922 to join the Baumer Piano Co. He was then associated with Lord &...

Frank E. Richardson Jr. '24

Frank E. Richardson Jr. of Sewickley, Pa., and Blue Hill, Maine, died Apr. 22, 1996, after a brief illness. A former sales executive of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.,...

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...

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...

David Churchman Trimble '24

The Rev. Canon David C. Trimble died Oct. 14, 1998, in Boonsboro, Md. He was 96. David prepared at the Gilman School in Baltimore and, after Princeton, graduated in 1930...

Hurd C. Willett '24

OUR CLASSMATE Hurd Willett, who died Mar. 26, 1992, was a world famous meteorologist. After graduation from Princeton, he earned a doctorate in meteorology from George...

Current Issue

July 6, 2011

Memorials by Class: 1924

John L. Adam died on Aug. 23, 1989. He left Princeton prior to graduation and lived in France for many years. In recent years, John resided in Clinton and Flemington,...

Hubert Newcombe Alyea, a professor emeritus of chemistry at Princeton, died in Hightstown, N.J., Oct. 19, 1996. He was 93.While at Princeton, Hubert played cello for the...

IRA APPEL died in Tucson May 1, 1990. He prepared at the Princeton Prep. He left Princeton in 1921 to engage in business. Ira was associated with the Farmers' Deposit...

LEE AUSTIN died Aug. 19, 1992, in Barnstable, Mass., where he had lived since retirement in 1958. Lee prepared at the Port Chester High School. At Princeton he rowed on...

Jack died in his sleep in the early morning hours of Mar. 20, 1995, at his lifelong residence in Greensburg, Penn. "The Baron," as he was also known, would have been 95...

The Class of '24 and the Princeton community lost a strong advocate on Aug., 15, 1996, when Paul Barringer died at home in Princeton of congestive heart failure. He was...

Dr. Richard Beebe died July 28, 1998. He was 96. Born in Great Barrington, Mass., he was the son, nephew, and grandson of country doctors, and often accompanied his...

Howard C. Blake died May 20, 1996. He was 92. He was born in St. Louis, Mo. He prepared at Lawrenceville. While at Princeton, Howard met Frank Buchman, founder of the...

Crosby died Aug. 12, 1995, at his summer home in Cape May, N.J.He was born Jan. 2, 1903, in Philadelphia. He prepared for Princeton at Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia...

Henry William Bradbury died Feb. 15, 1995. Born July 30, 1901, in Kingston, Pa., he was the son of an electrical engineer who worked for Kingston Coal Co.He was a member...

W. P. FULLER BRAWNER DIED Mar. 11, 1991. Shortly after graduation he joined his family business, the W. P. Fuller paint company in San Francisco. It was started by his...

After a long illness, the Rev. Adelmer Rogers Bryon died Oct. 24, 1995. He was 96.Adelmer was born in Ridgefield, Conn., the son of a doctor. Known by three nicknames,...

WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED by Edmund Burke's daughter Nancy Burke Ross that her father died in the Amherst Presbyterian Nursing Center in Williamsville, N..H., on May 13,...

Alonzo Church, a philosopher and mathematician, died Aug. 11, 1995. He was 92. He attended Ridgefield School in Connecticut, where he helped edit the school magazine. At...

CARL DE LA COUR died Aug. 5, 1992, in Jupiter, Fla., where he had lived for the past 15 years. Before retiring in 1958, he was a director, V.P., and manager of the...

ED CRABBE died in Torns River, NJ., May 1, 1990. He joined the Farmers Loan & Trust Co. shortly after graduation. When that company was taken over by the First National...

Donaldson Cresswell died on Nov. 18, 1989. Don prepared at St. Luke's School; after graduation he studied law at Penn. He was executive V.P. of Philadelphia Saving Fund...

PETER DOELGER died at his home in West Palm Beach on Nov. 12, 1992. After graduation, Peter received an M.S. from M.I.T. and worked there as a research associate until...

Ranald Dunning died July 15, 1998, at Princeton Medical Center. Born Oct. 6, 1902, in Lyndon, Ohio, to Smith G. Dunning 1892 and Agnes Powers, Ran attended St. Mary's...

MACKINNON ELLIS DIED Oct. 25, 1993. Kin prepared at Culver. After graduating with our class, he attended the Univ. of Pennsylvania Medical School. He interned at the...

ROGER ELLLIS died Nov. 20, 1990, in Woodstock, Vt. A native of Buffalo, he was first associated with the Pierce Arrow Co. and finally with the Buffalo Envelope Co. He...

MARTIN RYERSON EVERETT DIED Oct. 9, 1991 in Somers, N.Y. He prepared for Princeton at the East Orange High School. He married Katherine Van Keuren on Sept. 20, 1930 in...

PERRY FAETH died Feb. 14, 1993, in Kansas City. He left Princeton in June 1923 to take charge of the Stowe Hardware & Supply Co. in Kansas City. He was active in civic...

CARL FISCHER died on Dec. 23, 1989. He prepared at Franklin High School. After graduation he studied medicine at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia and did post...

LYMAN GILMORE died May 4, 1992, in Colorado Springs where he had been living the past two years. After graduation he taught history at the Harvard Preparatory School. He...

OTIS GREASER DIED in Cincinnati, where he had spent all his life, on June 16, 1992, He prepared at Hughes High School. After graduation from Princeton, he received an...

AFTER A PERIOD of deteriorating health, Thomas M. Green Jr. died in his sleep on Feb. 7, 1991. He was born in Seattle, Wash., on Jan. 15, 1902.He attended Lawrenceville...

Henry Guthrie died Feb. 12, 1997, at his home in Bedford, N.Y. Hank prepared at Hill School, showing early promise in the dramatic club and in work on the school...

BILL HANNA died on Dec. 4, 1989. He transferred from Lehigh in September 1921. After graduating with our Class he attended the Princeton Graduate School from which he...

MALCOM DEXTER HAVEN, a Charleston civic leader, artist, author, and retired president of the oil equipment firm of Livingston and Haven, died Sept. 18, 1993. Mat was...

EDDIE HESSBERG died June 18, 1990. He prepared for Princeton at the Columbia Grammar school. After graduation he received his J.D. from Columbia Univ. He was a counsel...

Thomas Kiernan died Jan. 17, 1996, of congestive heart failure in Chatham, N.J. He was 93. Tom was a loyal and supportive member of the class, regularly attending our...

Dr. David M. Kydd died in Cooperstown, N.Y., Apr. 20, 1995. He had been in declining health for several months.David had a long and distinguished career as a physician,...

GEORGE EDWARD LEH died Nov. 25, 1992, in Allentown, Penn., where he had lived all his life. Eddy was a senior partner of a department store chain, H. Leh & Co., that was...

JOE, WHO WAS better known by his nickname, Natty, died Apr. 18, 1992, at his home in Manhasset, N.Y., after a series of strokes. He attended high school in Ogdensburg,...

ROBERT WILSON LEWIS JR., retired attorney and resident of S. Pasadena for more than 30 years, died Sept. 17, 1991. After graduation from Princeton and then Harvard...

Arthur Lionberger, known to us as “Art” or “A.D.,” died July 4, 2008, at age 105 in Rochester, Mass. At his death he was not only the oldest resident of Rochester but...

PENN MACGRANN died unexpectedly in Philadelphia on Sept. 30, 1989. He prepared for Princeton at Haverford and Mercersburg. After graduation, he studied law at...

RAY MAURICE died Nov. 25, 1990 in Montclair, NJ., where he had lived for over 45 years. He prepared at the BerkeleyIrving School and transferred to Princeton from Brown...

ROBERT MCCLENALLAN DIED Oct. 31, 1993, in Barnstable, where he had lived since 1978. Wally was born in Egypt, where he lived until 1918. He was fluent in French and...

JOHNNIE MILES DIED Aug. 28, 1990. After graduating with our Class, he received a Ph.D. in physics from die Graduate School in 1929. Early In his career he was a member...

FRED MOHLE died in Ponte Vedra on Sept. 27, 1992. He was a native of Brooklyn. He prepared for Princeton at Erasmus Hall. He was associated with the Tide Water Oil Co....

Richard, of Overland Park, Kans., died on June 19, 2000. He graduated from the Lawrenceville School in 1920.In 1926, he enlisted in the Air Corps Reserve in Columbus,...

Ned died June 28, 1995, in Greenwich, Conn. He was born Jan. 19, 1903, in N.Y.C. and attended the Ethical Culture School.At Princeton he was in the orchestra and several...

Frank Parke died in Little Rock, Ark., on July 28, 1989. He transferred to Princeton from the Univ. of the South in 1920.He was the retired president of the Democrat...

FREDERICK PAYNE died at his home in Clogheen, Ireland, on Dec. 4, 1989. He left Princeton in his junior year to join Tucker, Anthony and Co., with which he was...

JOSEPH W. POWELL JR. died Jan. 30, 1993, in North Hill, Mass. He prepared at Milton Academy. After graduating with our Class, he earned an M.A. from Harvard, in 1926. He...

PAUL WALWORTH PURNIORT DIED Jan 13, 1991, in Sarasota. He prepared at Wert (Ohio) High School and transferred from Miami Univ., Oxford, Ohio, in 1921. He lived in...

Carleton Putnam, airline pioneer, biographer, and writer, died Mar. 5, 1998, at his home in Charlottesville, Va., of pneumonia.After Princeton, he became an aviation...

Ridenour died Oct. 12, 2000, in his home in Kansas City. He was almost 99. He entered Princeton from Lawrenceville School, ran track, and became captain of the...

Olney was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec. 18, 1902, to John William Raymond (who was connected with the Central Leather Co. in NYC) and Hannah Valentine. He died in...

BILL REIDEMEISTER died May 23, 1990. He prepared at the Pawling School. Bill left Princeton in Nov. 1922 to join the Baumer Piano Co. He was then associated with Lord &...

Frank E. Richardson Jr. of Sewickley, Pa., and Blue Hill, Maine, died Apr. 22, 1996, after a brief illness. A former sales executive of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.,...

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...

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...

The Rev. Canon David C. Trimble died Oct. 14, 1998, in Boonsboro, Md. He was 96. David prepared at the Gilman School in Baltimore and, after Princeton, graduated in 1930...

OUR CLASSMATE Hurd Willett, who died Mar. 26, 1992, was a world famous meteorologist. After graduation from Princeton, he earned a doctorate in meteorology from George...