Current Issue
Oct. 26, 2011
Vol. 112, No. 3
Memorials
Memorials by Class: 1932
Nathaniel B. Abbott '32
OUR POPULAR honorary member Nat Abbott died Feb. 2, 1994, at Crouse Memorial Hospital in Syracuse, after a brief illness. Although Nat graduated from Trinity Hartford in...
George B. Agnew Jr. '32
George, of Vero Beach, Fla., a former longtime resident of Greenwich, Conn., died Jan. 13, 2003. He was 93. He died of heart disease.George graduated from the Haverford...
W. Michael Aicher '32
Mike Aicher died Sept. 1, 1998, in his hometown of Tucson, Ariz. He had a varied career, working during the depression years on Wall Street, then joining the staff of...
Chalmers W. Alexander '32
A leading citizen of his lifelong hometown of Jackson, Miss., Alex died June 29, 1996, of heart failure at the Willard Bond Home.After obtaining his law degree from...
Francis Olcoft Allen IV '32
SIX YEARS AGO Frank suffered a crippling stroke, which left him disabled and speechless; he finally died Dec. 26, 1991. This was a tragic end to a distinguished career...
Robert Quincy Baker Jr. '32
Bob Baker died on May 4, 1989, after seven months of devastatingly painful illness. According to his wife, Aline, he kept up his spirits remarkably despite this ordeal,...
William Heath Bannard '32
BANNARD DIED at his home in Port Orange, Fla., Oct. 28,1990, only six weeks after it was discovered that he had lung cancer.Bill left us before graduation to go into...
Edward Ware Barrett '32
ED BARRETT, a distinguished journalist and public servant, died in Greenwich, Conn., on Oct. 23, 1989. Ed had a remarkable career in college. He ran cross-country,...
Nelson Mckenzie Bell '32
Nelson Bell died June 25, 1999, of stroke and heart problems, in Ormond Beach, Fla. He was 88 and had been in poor health for three months.Nelson prepared at Rutherford...
Roger H. Bettys '32
Rog died Sept. 1, 2004, in Chestnut Hill [Pa.] Rehabilitation Hospital. He was 94 and was preceded in death by his wife of more than 63 years, Dorothy Dutton Bettys, in...
Abraham S. Bickham Jr. '32
Bud Bickham died Nov. 18, 2000, leaving no survivors of whom we are aware. At Princeton he studied electrical engineering and was a member of Court Club. He worked for...
Henry C. Blackiston '32
Harry Blackiston died Aug. 23, 2001, at the Osborne Home in Rye, N.Y.Harry was a native of Virginia and graduated from Episcopal HS in Alexandria, Va., in 1928. While at...
William Watt Blanton '32
Bill Blanton died June 10, 1998, at his home in Albany, Tex. After graduating magna cum laude with an AB in archeology, Bill attended the U. of Texas Law School,...
David R. Blossom '32
Dave Blossom, 95, of Kiantone, N.Y., died Sept. 17, 2005, after a short illness.He prepared at Salisbury School. His late brother, Warren Blossom, was in the Class of...
Lee L. Blyler '32 *33
Lee Landis Blyler died Mar. 27, 1999, of lung cancer at his home in Cape Coral, Fla.Lee studied chemical engineering in college. In 1933 he earned a master's in chemical...
George W. Bogar Jr. '32
George died Apr. 11, 2003, in the Carlisle [Pa.] Regional Medical Center; he was 94. He was a graduate of Mercersburg Academy. His comments in our 25-year book: "Opinion...
Paul Leclair Brand II '32
PAUL BRAND died of lung ailments on Jan. 9, 1993, at Fairfax Nursing Center in Fairfax, Va. He had suffered a broken hip the previous November at his residence in...
Stephens Porter Brown '32
Steve Brown died June 23, 1996, at Mt. Pleasant Retirement Village in Monroe, N.J. He had moved there after retirement with his wife, Barry, who had developed...
Walworth Brown '32
In a recent class column, we mentioned that Wally Brown had had a stroke but was recovering. Unfortunately, that news was premature. Jay Chadwick, aware that Wally was...
Richard W. Bruere '32
DICK BRUERE DIED Mar. 24, 1994, at the Leader Rehabilitation Nursing Center in Yardley, Penn., after a brief illness. A lifelong resident of the Trenton area, Dick...
George M. Buckingham Jr. '32
George Buckingham died June 13, 1999, on Nantucket Island. He had prepared for college at South Kent School. He entered Princeton with our class, but by Christmas, he...
James Holden Burnett '32 *33
Jim died Dec. 27, 2002. He and his wife, the former Ethel Victoria Lewis Randall, had just celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary. His first wife, the former Anne...
William Campbell '32
BILL O'NEIL, another of our eminent lawyer classmates, died Sept. 8, 1992, after a long, brave struggle with cancer.After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1935,...
Francis F. Carpenter '32
FRAN CARPENTER died Apr. 6, 1993, of heart failure, after a long illness involving several strokes. We will always remember him for being able to maintain not only a...
Edward Burns Caulkins Jr. '32
After an extended period of declining health, Ed Caulkins died in Hobe Sound, Fla., on Nov. 18, 1989. He prepared at St. Mark's School, and at college was a member of...
George A. Chadwick Jr. '32
Jay died on July 20, 2001. He lived in Buckinghams Choice in Adamstown, Md. He prepared at Gaithersburg H.S. and Saint Albans School and at Princeton was treasurer of...
William Harrison Chaffee II '32
BILL CHAFFEE died Aug. 4, 1992, at his home in Evergreen Woods, North Branford, Conn. He had recently moved there from Vero Beach, Fla., where he had lived since...
William K. Chapman '32
Bill died Nov. 2, 2002. His wife had pre-deceased him. Bill prepared at William Penn Charter School. At Princeton he was in the Triangle and a member of Cottage...
E. Calvert Cheston '32
E. Calvert Cheston died at his home at Waverly Heights in Gladwyne, Penn., on July 13, 1999.He prepared for college at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. After...
Jerrold Van G. Cise '32
Another eminent lawyer from our class, Jerry Van Cise died July 21 at the New London Hospital in New Hampshire, as a result of pneumonia that developed after a...
Henry W. Cook Jr. '32
"Doc" died on May 25, 2002, after a short illness. His wife predeceased him.Doc prepared at the Blake School in Minneapolis. He roomed freshman and sophomore years with...
Thomas P. Cook '32
Tom Cook died Mar. 18, 1999, at Pennswood Village in Newtown, Pa., peacefully, with his family at his bedside."Country lawyer, public servant, and inhabitant of...
Justus Henry Cooley II '32
JUSTUS COOLEY, known to his classmates as "Judge," died Oct. 27, 1993, at the Woods Edge Care Center in Bridgewater, N.J., thus ending a distinguished career in...
Jack Millender Cotton '32
JACK COTTON died of congestive heart failure Oct. 19, 1992, at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He had homes in Bethesda, Md., and Clearwater, Fla. Jack was a public servant...
Donald Mcburney Curtis '32
Don Curtis died Oct. 8, 2001. He prepared at Newton [Mass.] High School. At Princeton, he was in the orchestra and band, on the fencing team and lacrosse squad, and in...
G. Warren Daane '32
Warren died Jan. 4, 2001. He was 89.He was a brilliant student, graduating as the top male student from Grand Rapids Central HS, summa cum laude from Princeton, and...
David T. Dana Jr. '32
Dave Dana died of pneumonia Dec. 19, 1995, at Fox Hill Village retirement community in Westwood, Mass. He had been a lifetime resident of Lenox until moving to Marion,...
John Burr de Graw '32
JOHN DE GRAW, a longtime newspaper editor and publisher, died at the Forestview Nursing Home in Wareham, Mass., on Aug. 18,1991. Ill health had required his move there...
Frank Randolph Decker '32
Frank Decker died Nov. 24, 1996, about one after he was diagnosed with cancer. He had lived in Garden City, Long Island, until he moved to Essex, Conn., several...
William Sherrod Dilworth '32
BILL DILWORTH DIED of lung cancer Oct. 3,1990. This sad news came to us only recently from his son Robert.Bill spent much of his life in merchandising. He started as a...
Henry Marvin Dodge '32
Hank died on May 28, 1989, after a period of declining health. Before he retired in 1974, he spent 42 years as a senior executive of the Libby-Owens-Ford Co....
Frederick William Doolittle Jr. '32
ONE 01; OUR EMINENI corporate lawyers, Fred Doolittle died of cancer Dec. 30, 1992, in Naples, Fla., where he had lived since 1978.After receiving his law degree from...
William Hocker Drake '32
Bill Drake died Apr. 15, 1996. He was 87. He prepared at Montclair Academy and the U. of Florida. He was on the track squad and the cross country squad at Princeton and...
Norman Walter Drey '32
NORM DREY died in St. Louis, Mo., May 6, 1990, after a long and bitter battle with emphysema. He prepared at Peddle, and at college was a member of the Life Saving Club,...
Walter Bruce Dunn '32
WAI.T DUNN died Oct. 16, 1992, at his home in Ft. Lauderdale, after a lingering illness.Walt's activities at Princeton with the Glee Club and Triangle Club led...
Hubert S. Dunning '32
Hubert S. Dunning, also known as Hugh, died Mar. 5, 1999. He prepared at Princeton Preparatory School. He left Princeton in the middle of sophomore year and, thereafter,...
Lewis Van Halow Dusen Jr. '32
Lew, a giant in a class with a number of giants, who regarded civic duty as an obligation, died Nov. 15, 2004. He was 93.Lew attended Episcopal Academy and St. Paul's...
Maitland Armstrong Edey '32
OUR CLAS SECRETARY for the past 15 years, Mait died of a sudden brain hemorrhage on May 9, 1992, at Martha's Vineyard Hospital. thus ending an outstanding career as a...
Joseph Tappen Edgar '32
JOE EDGAR died Nov. 27, 1990, in Bar Harbor, Me., where he had lived for many years, owning and operating a children's clothing store during that entire time. He...
James Wallace Ely '32
WALLY ELY, a distinguished upstate New York banker and public servant, died July 3, 1990, as a result of a crippling stroke.Except for a short stint in N.Y.C., Wally's...
Thomas Mercer Emory '32
Tom Emory, who had recently moved to the Valle Verde Retirement Community in Santa Barbara, Calif., died Apr. 27.After working for a year in the loan department of the...
Robert Gordon Fairburn '32
ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S eminent industrialists, Bob Fairburn died Sept. 26, 1992, at the Community Hospital in Monterey, Calif. He lived in Carmel and in recent years had...
Thomas Adamson Fernley Jr. '32
Tom Fernley died Mar. 6, 1996, in Ponte Vedra, Fla., his winter home. He summered in Buck Hills Falls, Penn., where he moved upon retirement.After he graduated from...
Charles Findley '32
Chuck Findley died Jan. 3, 1998, in his hometown of Fresno, Calif. After graduation, Chuck had a number of different jobs in the field of journalism. During WWII, he...
Gilbert C. Fonda '32
Gib died Sept. 18, 2002 at his home in Upper Montclair, N.J., after a brief illness. He was 91.Gib was born in Orange, N.J., and majored in mechanical engineering,...
Malcolm Foster '32
Mal Foster died Sept. 10, 1998, at his home in NYC.Mal attended Harvard Business School for two years, earning an MBA. Shortly thereafter he became v.p. of De Pinna &...
Eldridge Johnson Freeman '32
El died Nov. 6, 2004. He was 93.He prepared at Haverford [Pa.] School. At Princeton he was on the gym team his first three years and on the polo team all four years, and...
Mortimer B. Fuller Jr. '32
Mort Fuller died in Scranton, Penn., on Aug. 14, 1989. He came to us from Lawrenceville, and at college he was a member of Cottage Club. Employed by the International...
Walter Hamer Gahagan Jr. '32
A BIG MANboth in physique and in contributions to the world around himWalter Gahagan died of lymphoma Jan. 4, 1993, at the DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon,...
John Taylor Galey '32
AFTER A DISTINGUISHED career as a consulting geologist and oil and gas entrepreneur, John died suddenly on May 5, 1992, in a choking accident, while at dinner in...
Dudley H. Garland '32
DUDLEY DIED Aug. 7, 1993, at the Largo Medical Center Hospital in Largo, Fla., where he had lived since 1976.After leaving Princeton, he was in business in NYC until...
Kenneth W. Gemmill '32
A nationally recognized tax lawyer, Ken died Dec. 11, 1998, at his longtime home in Jamison, Pa., after several years of disability resulting from a stroke. Helen, his...
William Epperson Gilmore '32
BILL GILMORE died Oct. 16, 1992, of congestive heart failure, at his home in Naples, Fla. Until his retirement in 1982, he had been prominent surgeon in the Baltimore...
Willard Carter Goodpasture '32
Carter died July 10, 2005.He grew up in Chicago, Ill., and received full scholarship to attend Princeton. He was on the basketball team, baseball and football squads,...
Louis C. Green '32 *37
Lou Green died Apr. 10, 1999, at the Quadrangle at Haverford College. He was 88. Lou earned undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees from Princeton in 1932, 1933,...
William A. Grier '32
BILL GRIER, of Vero Beach, Fla., died there of throat cancer Aug. 10, 1990. He had previously lived in Hartsdale, Scarsdale, and Chappaqua, N.Y.Following graduation,...
Robert Leon Grosjean '32
Bob Grosjean, a truly international man, died after a short illness Dec. 4, 1995, in Brussels, Belgium.After graduate work at MIT, Bob joined the Birds Eye Co., and in...
George Hammond Gurley '32
A lifelong citizen of Kansas City until his retirement, George Gurley died Aug. 9, 1996. For many years he was president and general manager of Packer Publishing Co.,...
Andrew Douglas Hall '32
Doug, an investment banker, inventor, and connoisseur of old clocks, died Dec. 10, 2000, in Durham, N.C. He was 90.Doug attended Kent School before coming to Princeton,...
Charles Stuart Hamilton Jr. '32
After an illustrious career in law, politics, and government, Chuck Hamilton died Dec. 13, 1996, in Greenville, Del.At Yale Law School, Chuck was editor of the Law...
Hugh W. Handsfield '32
HUGH HANDSFIELD died Feb. 17, 1993, in a hospital in Charlottesville, Va.At the end of his sophomore year at Princeton, Hugh transferred to St. Stephen's College (now...
John H. Harmon Jr. '32
Bud Harmon, who worked steadily for 80 years and was a stockbroker and money manager for 46 years until a final illness, died April 19, 2011, in Lake Forest, Ill. He...
Francis Fisher Hart '32
Fran Hart died Oct. 13, 2005. He was 96.He prepared at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. At Princeton he was in Ivy Club. Freshman and sophomore years he roomed with...
John Hawes Jr. '32
Jack Hawes died March 14, 2006. He was 95. He prepared at the Loomis School and graduated from Princeton in 1932. During his last three years he roomed with Henry...
Harold R. Hawkey '32
Hal died Jan. 9, 2001, after a very brief illness in Medina, Wash., where he had moved from Montclair, N.J., just a year ago to be near family. He lived most of his 89...
Charles Bart Hawley '32
Bart Hawley, former president of Hilton-Hawley Co., his family's printing and litho inks manufacturing facility in Cincinnati, died Sept. 24, 2003, of congestive heart...
Lars Hedstrom '32
LARS HEDSMOM DIED in Florida Feb. 15, 1991. He came to us from Hotchkiss and at college was a member of Campus Club, and the electrical manager of Triangle Club.His...
Percy A. Hemming '32
Percy Hemming died Oct. 19, 1997, at Saratoga Manor in Pottstown, Pa. His entire business career was with the J.J. Newberry Co., where he worked 43 years until he...
Charles P. Henderson '32
CHUCK HENDERSON died suddenly of heart attack Sept. 15, 1990. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Chuck lived out his life there and served his community with distinction. With...
Jacob H. Herzog '32
A prominent attorney and civic leader in Albany, N.Y., Jake Herzog died at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Oct. 22, 1995.After obtaining his law degree from Albany...
Joseph Hodgson Jr. '32
JOE HODGSON died Feb. 8, 1993, in the aftermath of a stroke he had suffered in 1991 while playing golfAs soon as he graduated from Princeton, Joe was employed by...
Dwight Wheeler Hollenbeck '32
Dwight died July 7, 1996, at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, Ohio, after a long bout with cancer. Dwight started his banking career with First Morris Plan...
Donald Houghton Hooker '32
Don Hooker died Mar. 31, 1996, at his home in Boca Grande, Fla., after a lengthy illness. We remember him especially as v.p. of our senior class and the undefeated...
Ralph Townsend Hopper '32
Ralph Hopper died on July 15, 1989, at the Driftwood Convalescent Hospital in Carmel, Calif. He was 78. At his request, no services were held. He was cremated privately...
Peyton H. Houston '32
PEYT HOUSTON DIED Mar. 8, 1994, of heart failure while vacationing in Rincon, P.R. Peyt had an unusually interesting life, in which he combined writing with a corporate...
Rutledge W. Howard '32
Rutledge Howard, a resident of Boerne, Tex., for 17 years, died Jan. 31, 2002.Rutledge had such an illustrious career that it cannot be described within the space...
John Chandler Hume '32
A nationally recognized physician in the field of public health, John Hume died of pneumonia Feb. 16, 1998, at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore.John earned his MD from...
Hillard Bell Huntington '32 *33
A PIONEER RESEARCH physicist and distinguished professor, Hill Huntington died of cancer at his home in Troy, NY, on July 17, 1992.After several years of graduate work...
David King Irwin Jr. '32
Rex Irwin, who lived in New Vernon, N.J., since 1950, died Nov. 21, 1995, from a heart attack.Rex worked for Bryce Bros. Co., manufacturers of glassware, near...
Joel Benjamin Johnson '32
Joel Benjamin Johnson of Newfane, Vt., died peacefully July 8, 2007, in Townshend, Vt. He was 97. Born in Kuling, China, Joel grew up with his missionary parents,...
John G. Kellogg '32
Jack died Feb. 7, 2008, at the University Medical Center at Princeton, following an automobile accident in nearby Kingston. Born in Milwaukee, Jack...
Henry M. Kennedy '32
The class suffered a grievous loss when Ty Kennedy died Mar. 14, 1997, at the Princeton Medical Center. Long a resident of South Orange, for the past several years he...
Arthur D. Keown '32
Having taken a road less traveled, Arthur Keown died Oct. 6 at the Medical Center of Central Massachusetts after a short illness as a result of a stroke.Arthur devoted...
William B. Kerkam Jr. '32
Bill, a retired patent, copyright, and trademark lawyer who had practiced in the Washington, DC, area for 50 years before he retired in 1985, died of respiratory failure...
James Archibald Kerr '32 *35
Arch Kerr died Mar. 20, 1996, at the Meadow Lakes retirement community in Hightstown, N.J. After graduation, Arch went on to graduate studies in architecture at...
Henry Augustus Kingsbury '32
HANK KINGSBURY died in Belleair, Fla., on Oct. 7, 1989, after four years of increasingly failing health, including emphysema and heart problems. He was 79. He came to us...
Eric Kocher '32
Eric died Jan. 2, 1999, from heart failure at his home on Long Island's North Shore. He had a distinguished career as a Foreign Service officer, playwright, and...
Milton E. D. Labau '32
We recently learned that Milt LaBau died Aug. 25, 1997. As of our 50th reunion, Milt was living in Bethesda, Md.Soon after leaving Princeton, Milt became involved with...
Gordon R. Lacy '32
Gordon died May 15, 2003. He prepared at Cuba [N.Y.] High School. At Princeton, he was a member of the freshman basketball team, junior varsity lacrosse squad, Interclub...
Olai E Larsen '32 *34
LARRY LARSEN DIED Dec. 23, 1993, in a Portland, Maine, hospital following an operation. Larry spent two years at the graduate college, leaving Princeton in 1934 with an...
Langdon Lea Jr. '32
Lang Lea died Jan. 8, 1999, Princeton Medical Center, having been in poor health for a number of years.Most of us remember that in senior year he was voted the best...
Herbert Fairfax Leary Jr. '32
FAX LEARY, one of our most distinguished lawyers, died at his home in Villanova, Penn., May 17, 1990. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton and from the Harvard Law...
Frederick Lennig Jr. '32
Fred died May 10, 2003. He prepared at Episcopal Academy. At Princeton, he was a member of Colonial Club. He roomed junior and senior years with John Ross.He is survived...
William F. Lipp '32
Bill Lipp died May 14, 1996, in the Episcopal Church Home in Buffalo, N.Y.Upon obtaining his medical degree at the U. of Buffalo, Bill practiced gastroenterology at...
Job Herbert Lippincott Jr. '32
Herb Lippincott died Jan. 21, 1997, at the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and Islands in Sandwich, Mass.Herb was a prominent attorney in the North Jersey area....
Harold A. Loewenheim '32
A leader in the life insurance industry, Harold Loewenheim died Sept. 9, 1998, at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC.After Princeton he began his insurance career as an agent...
Jere Williams Lord Jr. '32
The class has lost one of its most distinguished members. Jere Lord died Apr. 20, 1999, at his home in Bedford, N.Y.Jere prepared at Gilman School. While at Princeton,...
Edmund D. Lucas Jr. '32
Ted died on Feb. 6, 2001. He was 88 and had been in failing health for several years. After graduating from Mercersburg Academy, he started at Princeton with the...
Edgar M. Lucas '32
Ed Lucas died Jan. 30, 1999, of cancer at the Blakehurst Life Care Community in Towson, Md.After leaving Princeton, Ed attended Johns Hopkins for a year to study...
Eugene John Luippold '32
Gene died Aug. 22, 2003.He prepared at Stevens Prep. At Princeton he was on the rifle team and freshman crew, and was a member of Whig-Clio and the Gateway Club. He...
James O Malley Jr. '32
Jim died Dec. 20, 2000. He was a member of Cloister Inn, and in his senior year he was editorial editor of the Daily Princetonian. After graduating from Harvard law...
Victor G. Manych '32
Victor G. Manych died Apr. 11, 2002. He was 91.Upon graduation from Princeton he worked for the Vacuum Oil Co. in Prague. The growing Nazi movement forced his return in...
Alexander Andrews Marks '32
Alexander Marks, a lifelong resident of Montgomery, Ala., died June 9, 2009, just a few weeks short of his 100th birthday. Alex represented Alabama at the 1924 Boy...
Samuel Copp Mccluney Jr. '32
SAM MCCLUNEY, a longtime resident of St. Louis, died in Bryn Mawr, Penn. on July 16, 1991. He came to us from St. Louis Country Day School, roomed with the late Bert...
William Bayard Mccoy '32
BY MCCOY, who lived and worked in Rochester, N.Y., all his life, died there on Jan. 12, 1993.After a brief period as an architect with the firm of Gordon & Kaelber, By...
David P. Meese '32
MEESE died Aug. 30, 1992, in Pompano Beach, Fla., where he had moved in 1971. He left Princeton after our sophomore year, and two years later graduated from Wabash...
William Larimer Mellon Jr. '32
An extraordinary life ended when William Mellon died in Deschapelles, Haiti, on Aug. 3, 1989, a victim of canĀ¬cer and Parkinson's disease. A member of one of...
Francis Mark Miller '32
Another of our distinguished lawyers, Mark Miller, died Mar. 4, 1997, at St. Luke's West Hospital in suburban St. Louis.After graduating from Harvard Law School, Mark...
John Keeling Mills Jr. '32
OUR FRIEND and loyal classmate Jack Mills died at the Greenwich, Conn. hospital, Mar. 31,1990. He came to us from South Kent School, and at college roomed for two years...
James Ruffin Mitchell '32
Jim Mitchell died of a heart attack on July 3, 1996, at Frye Memorial Medical Center in Hickory, N.C.Graduating, as all of us did, in the Depression years, Jim tried his...
G. Palmer Moffat '32
Bud Moffat departed this life Mar. 31, 1997, after suffering a heart attack. Although in declining health during his final year, his loyalty and concern for others led...
Henry Kelker Moffitt '32
Henry Moffitt died Aug. 19, 1995, of a heart attack at his home in Columbus, N.C.Because of the Depression, he left Princeton after sophomore year. He worked for a...
Malcolm L. Monroe '32
Mal died on July 30, 2001, in New Orleans. He was 90. He attended Woodberry Forest School and received an AB degree from Princeton, where he was in Quadrangle Club and...
Robert A. Moosmann '32
Bob, of Osprey, Fla., died Nov. 9, 2002. He was 92.Born in Brooklyn, he moved to Osprey from Wilmington, Del., in 1983. He left the DuPont Co. after 30 years of service...
Clayton White Morehead '32 *33
Clay died June 25, 2004.He prepared at Schenley High School in Pittsburgh. At Princeton he was on the Swimming Squad, was property manager of the Triangle Club, and was...
Jay E. Morehouse '32
After a long struggle with cancer, Jay Morehouse died at his home in Pomperang Woods in Salisbury, Conn., on July 22, 1996. He and his wife, Marie, had just celebrated...
William H. Morris '32
BILL MORRIS died Dec. 26, 1989, at the Bethesda Retirement and Nursing Center, following a stroke. His wife Margaret died in the same center three months earlier. At...
Gerald Griffin Morse '32
Gerry Morse died peacefully at his home in Newfields, N.H., on June 10, 1996.Gerry began his career with IBM, working on systems and sales. From 1937-42 he worked for...
Garret Mott Jr. '32 *34
Garret died Sept. 17, 2001. He was 91.Garret lived in Scarsdale, N.Y., until his marriage to Cornelia Hadsell. Together they lived in New Canaan, Conn., then moved to...
Philip Daniel Myers '32
Phil died Oct. 29, 2006, at home in Coral Gables, Fla.. He was 97. He prepared at Blair Academy. At Princeton he was on the freshman baseball, wrestling, and...
Stephen Krauss Myers '32
STEVE MYERS died Feb. 12, 1993, after a short illness.He was born and spent most of his life in Savannah, Ga., where he contributed much to his community. After...
John F. Neary Jr. '32
Jack Neary died Jan. 8, 1999. At Princeton, he was a member of Elm Club, captain of the fencing team, and on the pistol team. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1935...
Joseph L. T. Nicholson '32
Joe Nicholson died Jan. 31, 1999, at Dunwoody Village in Newtown Square, Pa.Joe earned his medical degree at the U. of Pennsylvania, where he completed his internship,...
Ransom E. Noble '32
Ransom E. Noble died May 8, 1999, in Ridgewood, N.J. He is survived by two sons, Richard A. and James R., and a daughter, Jean C. He was predeceased by his wife, Lois,...
Joseph Wallace Oman '32
WALLY OMAN died peacefully, after a stroke, on Nov. 18, 1992, at his home in Berkeley, Calif.After graduation from Princeton, Wally took courses in accounting and became...
Peter Standish Paine '32
Peter died Oct. 26, 2004, peacefully at home.He prepared at Kent School and graduated from Princeton in 1932. Freshman year he roomed with Doug Hall, and in his last...
Challen R. Parker '32
AFTER A LONG and difficult struggle with leukemia, Bill Parker died in Greenwich, Conn., Aug. 10, 1990. He came to us from Hotchkiss, and roomed all four years with the...
William Metcalf Parkin Jr. '32
Bill Parkin died of pancreatic cancer July 1, 1995, at the Forbes Hospice in East Liberty, Penn.After leaving Princeton, he joined the Parkin Chemical Co. in Pittsburgh,...
William A. Pearson '32 *33
Bill Pearson died July 1, 1995, at Country Meadows in Hershey, Penn.Having obtained his master's in mechanical engineering, Bill went to work for Harrisburg Steel Co., a...
Robert Morehead Perry '32
Robert, professor emeritus at NYU, died on Sept. 26, 2002, in Providence, R.I. He was 92.He born in New Castle, Pa., and attended Mercersburg Academy. He received a...
Erle Pettus Jr. '32
Erle died June 26, 2004.Born Feb. 12, 1911, in Birmingham, Ala., he attended Philips High School. At Princeton he joined Quadrangle Club.Following Princeton, Erle...
William Piel Jr. '32
Another outstanding lawyer of our class, Bill Piel died Sept. 13, 1998, at Tree House Farm, his home in Sherman, Conn.After graduation Bill earned his LLB degree from...
Frank Noera Pole '32
Frank died June 27, 2009, in Richmond, Va. He was born in Lewisburg, W. Va., Aug. 14, 1910. He grew up in Hot Springs, Va., and received his early education at Miss...
Herbert Jacquelin Potts '32
Jack Potts died Nov. 8, 1998, at his residence in Fairhope, Ala., to which he had moved upon retirement.Jack devoted most of his career to the business of manufacturing...
John Milton Ranck '32
AFTER A LONG BOUT with cancer, Johnny Ranck died Aug.2, 1992, at his home in Strasburg, Penn., thus ending a distinguished career as a lawyer, prosecutor, Republican...
Don Randell '32
Don Randell died at his home in Pineland, Fla., July 10, 1995.Don prepared at the George School, majored in geology at Princeton, and graduated with a commission in the...
Donald Hamilton Randell '32
Don Randell died July 10, 1995, in Pineland, Fla., where he had retired in 1967. He had become a southwest Florida legend for his contributions to the study of...
William Smith Rial Jr. '32
Bill Rial died of natural causes Oct. 6, 1995, at his home in Greensburg, Penn.After graduation from Princeton, Bill worked until 1941 for the Pittsburgh Railways Co....
John Eastburn Richardson '32
Jack Richardson died July 24, 1994, at his home in Yardley, Penn., after a long illness.He had devoted his entire career to banking, having been employed by Central...
Daniel M. Ricker Jr. '32
Daniel M. Ricker Jr. died Mar. 16, 1999, in Holy Spirit Hospital in Camp Hill, Pa. He was 89.Daniel prepared at Mercersburg Academy. He retired from the wage...
Robert S. Ringland '32
Robert S. Ringland died March 9, 2009, in his Burlington, Iowa, nursing home. He had been suffering from dementia, possibly Alzheimer’s, since the mid-1990s. Bob was...
Algernon Roberts '32
THE CLASS LOST ALGERNON "Buzz" ROBERTS on Oct. 6, 1993. He had held every office in the class, including that of president. He prepared at St. Paul's. At Princeton, he...
Philip E. Robinson '32
Philip E. Robinson died Apr. 29, 2001, at Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home, Ark. He was 90.Born May 6, 1910, in Philadelphia to Philip Ely and Mary Eaves...
Ormsbee W. Robinson '32
Ormsbee died July 3, 1995, apparently from heart attack, while driving his car near his home in Fearington Village, N.C. Thus ended an outstanding career in education...
Laurance S. Rockefeller '32
Larry, a conservationist, philanthropist, and leading figure in the field of venture capital, died in his sleep July 11, 2004. He was 94.He prepared at Lincoln School of...
Lloyd Emmerich Rosenbaum '32
WE HAVE ONLY recently learned of the death of Lloyd "Rosy" Rosenbaum, who succumbed to heart failure Mar. 27, 1990, in Anderson, Ind.Rosy came to us from Lake Forest...
James H. Rowbotham '32
Jim Rowbotham, who might be called Mr. Princeton '32, died of pneumonia Jan. 18, 1996, in Devon, Penn.Jim's entire business career was spent with Atlantic Richfield Co.,...
Harry L. Rust '32
Bill Rust died June 24, 2004.He prepared at Kansas City Country Day School and attended Princeton with the Class of '32. He was on the freshman golf squad and was a...
Willis Garson Ryckman '32
After a distinguished career as executive, author, professor, and bank founder, Bill died June 25, 1995, at his home in Charlottesville, Va.Starting 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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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.,...
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...
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...
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...
H. Lloyd Thomas Jr. '32 *33
Lloyd Thomas died at Holy Redeemer Hospital, Mar. 24, 1997, in Southampton, Pa., where he had lived and worked for most of his life. After college he went into the real...
Ross W. Thompson '32
Ross Thompson died Nov. 3, 1997.He prepared at Mercersburg. After graduating from college, he went to the U. of Pittsburgh Law School and then began the practice of law...
Louis E. Toro Jr. '32
Louis E. Toro Jr. of Bryn Mawr, Pa., died May 19, 2003. He was 93.After Princeton, Louis attended the U. of Virginia Law School. He founded the Freeman and Toro...
Alan Tredennick '32
ALAN TREDENNICK, a quiet but widely respected member of our Class, died Jan. 29, 1992, at the Medical Center in Princeton. He had suffered a stroke a few years ago, and...
Calvin Procter Wallis '32
Calvin Wallis died June 28, 2000. He was 89. He prepared at William Penn charter School. At Princeton, he was assistant manager of the gym team, Triangle B, and was a...
Daniel E. Walzer '32
DAN WALZER died of cancer Aug. 31, 1990, in N.Y.C., where he was born and lived most of his life. He prepared at Poly Prep, and at Princeton was the handball champion of...
Frederick Strembeck Wermyss Jr. '32
FRED DIED June 13, 1992, at Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester, Mass., near his hometown of Rockport. On the morning of his funeral, three days later, Lyclia, his...
Frank A. West '32
Frank died on June 15, 2001, in Carmel, Calif. He was born near Stockton, Calif., and grew up in Washington D.C., spending the school year there and returning to...
Millard Farrar West Jr. '32
Millard West died on Mar. 18, 2000, at his home in Chevy Chase, Md.He was married to Emily Stuart Maddox from 1935 until her death in 1967. Survivors include his wife of...
Allen Earle Whitman '32
Services were held at Christ Church, in Roxbury, Conn., for Allen Whitman, who died on Sept 19, 1989, after three years of failing health. He came to us from the Gunnery...
Robert Watson Winston '32
Robert W. Winston died July 21, 1999. He was born June 13, 1910, and prepared for Princeton at Woodberry Forest.At Princeton, he was a member of the Arbor Inn Club, the...
Hugh D. Wise Jr. '32
Hugh died peacefully at home Aug. 3, 2003. He attended St. Alban's School in DC, graduated from Princeton with high honors in 1932, then earned a master's from...
Caspar Wister '32
Cap, formerly of Leucadia, Calif., and Saranac Lake, N.Y., died Jan. 14, 2003, in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Cap graduated from St. Paul's School. At Princeton, he was on the...
John W. Woods '32
Woody Woods of Gettysburg, died Aug. 26, 2000, at his home. He was 91.He was the oldest member of Lower Marsh Creek Presbyterian Church, in Gettysburg. He graduated from...
John Austin Wyckliffe Woody '32
Austin died Jan. 2, 2005, in St. Luke's Hospital in Columbus, N.C.. He was 93 and a resident of Tryon Estates in Columbus.After graduating from Princeton in 1932, and...
William Fiske Wright '32
William F. Wright, 93, a retired advertising executive world-class golfer, died Sept. 15, 2003, at his home in Wayzata, Minn.After graduation from the Hill School...
Sidney Haldane Wyse '32
Sid Wyse, who lived in Laguna Hills, Calif., died Aug. 24, 1999. He was born Dec. 13, 1911 and prepared for Princeton at Hemstead H.S. [N.Y.]. He graduated with a degree...
George W. Young '32
George Young died in Hartford, Conn., on June 16, 1999.He prepared at Exeter and entered Princeton in the fall of 1928.Following graduation he was employed by the New...
George W. Young '32
George Young died in Hartford, Conn., June 16, 1999. He prepared for Princeton at Exeter. Following graduation, he was employed by the New York Life Insurance Co. for 10...
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