In response to: ‘By Alumni, For Alumni’
Current issue
July 2025
On the cover: Wilton Virgo ’00 and his classmates celebrate during the P-rade.
On the cover: Wilton Virgo ’00 and his classmates celebrate during the P-rade.
I was delighted to see a photo of one of the Tiger Tot Tenders in the April 2025 issue. While the student agency might have initially been intended to provide childcare assistance for Princeton students with young families, by the mid ’50s its clients included families like mine, who had no connection to the University.
Our beloved Tot Tender was Peter Gall ’58, with whom we stayed in touch for the rest of his life, even attending his 1961 wedding at the U.S. Army base in Germany where he was stationed. (We had recently moved to Geneva, Switzerland, and drove up for the celebration.)
In the attached photos, the black and white one is how we looked when Peter cared for us. In the color photo, taken a few years before his passing, Peter is seated next to his wife, Pali. I’m in the white shirt, next to my siblings Jim (Hamilton ’74), Sarah (Smith ’71), and Dick (Hamilton ’67).
Photos courtesy of Bob Peskin ’78