Lives Lived & Lost

PAW started “Lives Lived & Lost” in 2013 to reflect on the impact alumni who died the previous year had on the world. This issue profiles 12 who died in 2024, as well as Tiger Bech ’21, who was killed in the early hours of New Year’s Day in a truck attack in New Orleans. We felt it was important to include Bech and the remembrances of his classmates, coaches, and family.

The University will pay tribute to all students, alumni, faculty, and staff members whose deaths were recorded last year at the Service of Remembrance on Alumni Day, Feb. 22.

— Peter Barzilai s’97, PAW editor

Tiger Bech ’21 Was Joy On and Off the Field

Jon E. Barfield ’74 Gave Back, Including to Princeton

Claire Crooks ’95 Taught Teens About Healthy Relationships

Artist Frank Stella ’58 Defied Labels and Reinvented Himself

Susan Cotts Watkins *80 Led Research on AIDS in Africa

The Military Was One Facet of Christopher E. Hornbarger ’90

Uthara Srinivasan ’95 Made Princeton Reunions Greener

Journalist Michael Aron *70 Commanded Respect From All Sides

Brian Olsen ’64 Pioneered ‘Ready-to-Assemble’ Furniture

Moorhead Kennedy Jr. ’52 Survived to Recount the Iranian Hostage Crisis

Fu Shen *76 Was a Prolific Scholar and a Gifted Artist

Thomas C. Hanks ’66 Changed How We Understand Earthquakes

Larry Lucchino ’67 Brought Back the Old-Fashioned Ballpark