MEMORIALS
Preston Lea Spruance ’33
Pres died on Oct. 5, 1998, after a lengthy battle with pneumonia and emphysema. He was 86. After graduation, he worked for duPont until he…
Chauncey Prentiss Ward ’33
"Doc" Ward died Apr. 14 in Belleville, N.J. He was 89. He had maintained a pediatric medical practice in Belleville until he retired six years…
Frank James Dean Jr. ’33
Frank Dean died on Feb. 20, 2000, in Prairie Village, Kans. He was 88. He attended Shattuck H.S., in Fairbuilt, Minn., and received degrees in…
Frank Harmon Gordon ’33
Frank Gordon, of Lake Sunapee, N.H., a village trustee, died Feb. 5, 2000, at Dartmouth-Hickock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. He was 88. Former Mayor…
Gordon Sayre Humphrey ’33
Gordon Humphrey died Aug. 15, 1999, in Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara. He was 89. Gordon was born in Trenton. He moved to Washington, N.J., where…
Montgomery Meigs Orr ’33
Monty Orr died at his home in Santa Fe on Jan. 16, 2000. He was 88. Monty was born in the American Embassy in Rio…
Burt H. Etherington ’33
Burt, president of the Class of 1933 in its first 10 fledgling years, died Dec. 19, 2006. He was born in Philadelphia. After he graduated…
Willard Winn Erdman ’33
Winn was born Jan. 22, 1912, in Quincy, Ill., and died Dec. 9, 1999, in Las Cruces, N.Mex. At Princeton, he majored in classics and…
William Flynn Powell ’33
Bill Powell died Oct. 7, 1999, at Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Center. He was 90. Born in Jackonsville, he went to Lawrenceville before Princeton and then…
James Redel Tencher ’33
Jim Tencher died peacefully in his sleep in Waterbury Hospital on Sept. 18, 1999. He was 90. Jim was born in Chicago, the son of…
Frederick Robbins Swan ’33
Fred Swan died Nov. 18, 1999 on board the Sea Cloud as he sailed the Caribbean. He was 86. Fred was born in Hartford and…
Frederick William Williams ’33
Bud Williams died July 21, 1999 in Trenton. He was 88. The NY Times had this brief announcement of his death: After graduation from Princeton…
Memorial PAWcasts
Remembering Hendrix Niemann ’73
‘A relationship with Drix, even in business, it was personal. You couldn’t be with him ... and not treat it as a friendship that you either wanted to develop or…
Remembering Richard Springs III ’64
Dick was ‘a philosophy major playing football, which always bemused our father enormously. Or maybe a football player
majoring in philosophy ... ’ — Lanny Springs ’64
Remembering Bill Miller ’55
"When Bill was at Elm Club, as an undergraduate, he wasn’t especially remarkable. As a person in the landman field, I don’t think he was especially remarkable there. But he…
Remembering Jennifer Parmelee ’80
“Jenni had the deepest sense of responsibility to give back and to do good and to support the little guy. … as time went on, she never lost that sense…
Remembering Victor Brombert
“Brombert was very concerned that I talk about his love of teaching. He said, ‘My love isn’t war, it’s teaching and I hope you’ll find a place to mention that,’…
Remembering Karl Hummel ’67
“What’s unique about Karl is he represented all these great, broad, national economic and management and philosophy trends. He touched on every one of them. I don’t know many other…
Remembering Isabella De La Houssaye ’86
‘We had a rule. You can’t compare yourself to Isabella because fool’s errand. But whatever race you were on, you always could push yourself further thinking of her and thinking…
Remembering Ernie T. Pascarella ’65
‘Just so that everybody knows, this was one outstanding guy in every way,’ said Cosmo Iacavazzi ’65
Remembering Joe Schein ’37
Joe Schein ’37 the oldest living alum in Princeton's history at the time of his death. He carried the 1923 Silver Cane eight times at the P-rade during Reunions.
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