Each year at Alumni Day, Princeton notes the passing of students, alumni, faculty, and staff who died during the year gone by. The Service of Remembrance is a moving and poignant celebration of lives we knew.
In that spirit, the following pages are a...Read more
Pianist and scholar who always had something interesting to say
Published in the Feb. 6, 2013, issue
May 5, 1927 – Dec. 9, 2012
In his book Playing the Beethoven Sonatas, my classmate Robert Taub ’77 declared, “Anything that Charles Rosen has to say is always of interest.” I wanted Rosen ’48 *51 to say something about a piano I had watched Steinway & Sons...Read more
March 23, 1922 – Jan. 30, 2012
By the time Klaus Goldschlag arrived at Princeton to study Oriental languages, he already had lived life that could fill memoir. Yet his career was just beginning.
Born in Berlin, Germany, in 1922, Goldschlag was sent to...Read more
Unflappable civil-rights hero and shaper of history
Published in the Feb. 6, 2013, issue
Jan. 17, 1922 — May 8, 2012
It says worlds about the character of Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach that Some of It Was Fun, his modestly titled 2008 memoir of service at the highest levels of the U.S. government, makes no mention of what must have been the...Read more
June 8, 1935 – June 13, 2012
Peter Gott was a small-town doctor. But in some sense, his patients included all of us — or at least the millions of people who read his syndicated medical column during its almost-30-year history.
Gott’s column had its roots in...Read more
Oct. 12, 1922 – March 19, 2012
In the early 1960s, Sandy McDonnell was a rising aerospace executive at McDonnell Douglas, the company built and run by his uncle, James S. McDonnell ’21. Long hours at the office helped the younger McDonnell’s career but...Read more
May 16, 1966 – June 6, 2012
In 1987, Dawn Jahn Moses and a handful of undergraduates who belonged to the Student Volunteers Council started what has become a foundation of the freshman experience for many: several days of community service at the start of...Read more
June 4, 1920 – Sept. 17, 2012
For Russell Train — Okinawa veteran, Columbia Law School grad, congressional aide, and federal tax judge — becoming a full-time environmentalist was about as exotic a career choice as a pedigreed Washingtonian could make in...Read more
April 29, 1927 – July 3, 2012
Franklin Dorman was an unusual Princetonian, and not just because he never earned more than $10,000 a year and was darn proud of it. A gentle, radical minister who caught fire in the 1960s and then campaigned tirelessly for...Read more
May 19, 1940 – Nov. 11, 2012
Farish Jenkins’ students at Harvard sometimes likened him to another academic: Indiana Jones, the fictional professor and adventurer who never lacked for style. Jenkins, after all, had trained as a military officer, did...Read more
June 21, 1905 – Oct. 9, 2012
The oldest son of Princeton ever, and our last link to the Roaring ’20s, Malcolm Warnock died at age 107. The curtain falls on a legendary era.
A few months before his death, Warnock endured crowds and discomfort to attend his...Read more
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