MEMORIALS
Charles L. Gandy Jr. *52
Aeronautical Engineering, July 24, 2006
William W. Woobury *52
Mathematics, June 20, 2004
Augustus Robert Towers Jr. ’45 *52
Professor Bob Towers died May 2, 1995, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, of pancreatic cancer. Bob entered Princeton from St. Christopher's in Richmond and was…
Francis H. Sleeper *52
Francis H. Sleeper, an old-fashioned, respected, and hardworking business reporter, died Sept. 8, 2006, in Portland, Maine, after a long struggle with prostate cancer. He…
David Erickson Brickl *52
DAVID ERICKSON BRICKL *52, aged 64 years, retired physicist at the I.B.M. facilities located in East Fishkill, N.Y., died Aug. 12, 1991, at Vassar Brothers…
Russell Elliott Miller *52
RUSSELL ELLIOTT MILLER *52, professor of history emeritus and university archivist and historian at Tufts Univ., died at his home in Reading, Mass., Jan. 3…
Harry L. Bush *52
HARRY L. BUSH, retired Army colonel, died in Georgetown Univ. Hospital Jan. 17, 1993, at the age of 74. In recent years, he and his…
Dudley Bell Robinson Jr. ’49 *52
"TOM" DIED at home on May 219, 1,992, following a heroic twoyear bout with prostate cancer. He was born in Cleveland on Mar. 15, 1927…
Gordon E. Baker *52
Politics, Jan. 13, 2004
Nicholas Holt ’49 *52
Nick died of Pick's disease April 10, 2006. He was 78. He prepared for Princeton at the Putney School and majored in the humanities as…
William H. Short ’46 *52
BILL DIED Feb. 20, 1991, of cancer at Princeton Medical Center. He joined us in that memorable summer of 1942 before entering the Army and…
Jean P. Mather *51
Jean P. Mather, the outspoken president of the University of Massachusetts from 1954 to 1960, died June 21, 2007. He was 92. Mather helped transform…
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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