John Hopkins ’60 sits on a motorcycle to the right, while friend Joe McPhillips ’58 stands on the left in this black-and-white photo. The pair’s motorcycle journey through North Africa in the 1960s was the subject of Hopkins’ The White Nile Diaries. This image appeared on the cover of the book.

Lives: An Appreciation

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By Princeton Alumni Weekly

Published Jan. 27, 2022

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At the Service of Remembrance on Alumni Day, Princeton will pay tribute to students, alumni, faculty, and staff members whose deaths were recorded in 2021. The moving ceremony was held virtually last year because of the COVID pandemic; this year, Princeton planned to return to the service’s traditional home, the Chapel. 

In this issue, PAW, too, offers its tribute to those whose lives ended last year. As always, we hope the profiles here provide inspiration, bring back good memories, and remind you of others you knew on campus. We welcome your comments about these Princetonians and others.

The Service of Remembrance takes place at 3 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 19. For more information about Alumni Day, visit bit.ly/alumni-day22.

John Hopkins ’60: An Adventurer and Writer Who Traveled the Globe

Steven Weinberg *57: He Advanced Understanding of Our Universe — for All

Royce Flippin Jr. ’56: The Star Athlete Always Aimed to do the Right Thing

Lawrence Otis Graham ’83: He Wrote About Racism And Living in Two Worlds

Robert B. Hollander ’55: A Magical Teacher Who Saw Students as Partners

Marianna TePaske Daly ’79: She Found Her Calling In Rural Medicine

Herbert Schlosser ’49: A Network Executive Who Made America Laugh

Avron J. Maletzky ’59: A Shy Loner, He Healed Desperately Ill Children

Laurence Desaix Anderson ’58: He Helped Old Enemies To Reconcile

Jonathan Smith ’81: As a Student and Professor, He Moved Others Toward Justice

John H. Williamson *63: A Gifted and Pragmatic Economist Whose ‘Consensus’ Was Misinterpreted

James F. Ridgeway ’59: A Journalist Who Chronicled What Others Ignored

Gary Nash ’55 *64: He Wanted American History To Reflect Us All

John Sacret Young ’69: Scripts, Books, Essays: He Never Stopped Writing

1 Response

James William Anderson ’70

2 Years Ago

A New Approach to ‘Lives’

Every year your section on “Lives Lived and Lost” fascinates me, but I seriously urge you to drop it. The reason is that it is so frustrating to read about these people and sometimes wish to write to them or even meet them, but that is impossible because every single one of them is deceased. I think you should replace the section with a section of equal length dealing with living alumni/ae. It could emphasize alumni from older classes as does the present section. I cannot see any downside to my recommendation. It even would be better for those written about; they’d actually get to read about themselves. A year from now prepare a section and call it “Fascinating Lives Honored in 2022” — or “Lives Being Lived.” 

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