MEMORIALS
John Robert Murray ’28
JOHN DIED May 7, 1992, in Napa, Calif., after a threeyear illness following a severe stroke. He was born and lived in Kenilworth, a northern…
Charles Edward Caspari Jr. ’28
CHARLIE CASPAR1 died Feb. 16, 1992, after surgery in Barnes Hospital, St. Louis. He went to Princeton Prep. and at college majored in politics, was…
Frank Ritter Shumway ’28
RITTER SHUMWAY died of cancer Mar. 9, 1992, at his home in Brighton (Rochester), N.Y. Ritter's grandfather founded the manufacturing firm for dental equipment and…
Walter Hirshon ’28
WALT HIRSHON died May 12, 1991, at his home in Sands Point, 11. He graduated from the Horace Mann School He left college, after two…
Thomas Story Jenks ’28
TOM JENKS died Dec. 2, 1991, at the Stone Gates Nursing Home in Greenville, Del. He was born in New York, and grew up in…
Malcolm Sewall Park ’28
MAL PARK died Dec. 5, 1991, in a hospital in Tyler, Tex. He had lived in nearby Pittsburg since 1979. He was born in Helensboro…
John Windsor Persse Jr. ’28 *30
JOHN PERSSE (tied in Hamden, Conn., on Feb. 1, 1992. For three years he had been in the Medical Unit of Whitney Center with a…
Donald Bogart Kipp ’28
DON Kipp died Dec. 5, 1991, at the Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Palm Beach. For the past ten or more years he had…
William Van Fowler Deventer ’28
BILLVAN DEVENTER died Nov. 6, 1991, after a long illness, at his home in Tubac, Ariz. He retired in 1969, and, after living in Far…
Raymond Smith Willis Jr. ’28 *33
PETE WILLIS died Nov. 24, 1991, at his home in Monroe Village, Jamesbung, N.J. He had served on the faculty of Princeton University for 43…
Kenneth Biddle Atkinson ’28
KEN ATKINSON died at his home in Mclean, Va., Nov. 6, 1991. He had been slowed down by Parkinson's disease, but kept active in many…
William Alanson Alexander Jr. ’28
ALEX DIED July 10, 1991, in Montclair, N.J. He went to Newark Academy. At Princeton he majored in economics, with considerable additional study of architecture…
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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