MEMORIALS
Harper Roome Dowell ’30
IT IS WITH DEEP regret that we report the death of Harper Dowell, business executive, on Dec. 10, 1992, after a lingering illness. He was…
Henry Street Dickerman Jr. ’30
DICK DICKERMAN disappeared from his home in Springfield, Ill., on Aug. 11, 1992. His body was found a month later at the bottom of a…
Frank Edward Smith Jr. ’30
"F. E.", AS HE WAS KNOWN to all of us, died Aug. 27, 1992 in Sharon Hospital, Salisbury, Conn., where he had lived since 1955…
Hobard Louis Brinsmade ’30
HOBIE DIED July 1, 1992, at his summer place in the Adirondacks. He was born in New York and prepared at Taft. At Princeton he…
Edgar Bright Wilson ’30 *31
BRIGHT WILSON, retired Harvard professor, worldfamous scientist, and one of our most illustrious classmates, died July 12, 1992, in his Cambridge, Mass., home, of pneumonia…
John D. Rode ’30
JOHN BOOR died May 8, 1992, at the Cape Canaveral Hospital in Florida. John prepared for Princeton at Poly Prep and Horace Mann schools in…
Bradbury C. Alder ’30
BRAD ALDER died Mar. 24, 1992, at the Cleveland Clinic, after several months of illness. Brad came to Princeton from Exeter Academy but left in…
Charles C. Shenk ’30
CHICK SHENK died Mar. 10, 1992, in the Western Reserve Convalescent Horne, in Erie, Penn. He was born in Erie and spent most of his…
Albert Covolo ’30 *31
AL COVOLO, the oldest member of our Class, died in New York on May 14, 1992. Al was born in St. Gall, Switzerland, but his…
Francis Prescott Hersey ’30
WITH THE DEATH of Deke Hersey in Wellesley, Mass., on Apr. 14, 1992, the Class lost one of its most loyal members. Before coming to…
George Austen Jr. ’30
GEORGE AUSTEN DIED Dec. 10, 1991, in Lynchburg, Va., where he retired after a distinguished career in medicine. George came to Princeton from the Hill…
Robert Cornwell ’30
BOB CORNWELL DIED Dec. 6, 1991, in the Waterbury Hospital in Connecticut. He had been living in the Health Center at Pomperaug Woods in Southbury…
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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