MEMORIALS
Harding Roche ’18
"HARDING ROCHE, avid tennis and squash player, dies at 94." Thus read the headline in the Feb. 13, 1992, edition of the SHORT HILLS (N.J.)…
W. Mercier Parker ’18
AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS, W. Mercier "Perk" Parker passed away in California on Dec. 27, 1991. News of his death came from his son Stephen…
John H. Burns Jr. ’18
THE CITIZENS OF WICHITA, Kansas, and the Class of '18 suffered a true loss with the death of John H. Jr., on April 13, 1991…
Frank Baker ’18
IT WAS A HEAVY LOSS for our Class when our splendid Class President Frank Baker'18 died Jan. 11, 1991. Born Aug. 24, 1895, in Atchison…
Albert D. Reidinger ’18
OUR BELOVED CLASSMATE, Albert Reidinger, died July 29, 1990, of pneumonia at his home in Cokesbury Village in Hockessin, Dela. He was 94 years of…
Lamartine Varnedoe Lamar ’18
"SHORTY" LAMAR DIED June 22, 1990, at his home in New Orleans. He was born Mar. 28, 1896, in Valdosta, Ga., and spent his youth…
Pamela Meredyth Colwell ’17
Pam Colwell died on Apr. 4, 2001, in Manchester, Mass. She was 94. She was born in London and was predeceased by her first husband…
Steven J. Hirsch ’17
Steve Hirsch, the last remaining member of the Class of '17, died on Sept. 2, 2000, at home in San Francisco. He was 105 and…
Isaac Bates Grainger ’17
Ike Grainger died Oct. 12, 1999 in Wilmington, N.C. He was 104. He prepared for Princeton at Woodberry Forest School. At Princeton he was a…
Douglas Remington Nichols ’17
Doug Nichols died June 6, 1999. He was 104. He came to Princeton from Llewellyn Park in West Orange, N.J., as did his friend and…
Evan Jones Miller ’17
Ev Miller, well known in Harrisburg, Pa., as a historian, who became an authority on the city's rich past, died Nov. 20, 1997, at his…
David Arthur Iseman ’17
DAVE ISEMAN died Nov. 16, 1992, in Washington, Penn., where he was born Mar. 24, 1895. He entered Princeton from Berkshire School, Sheffield, Mass. After…
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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