MEMORIALS
Leo J. Hickey *67
Leo Hickey, professor of geology at Yale and former director of its Peabody Museum of Natural History, died Feb. 9, 2013, from melanoma. He was…
William Dewitt *66
William DeWitt, the C. Carlisle Tippit Professor of Biology at Williams College, died May 3, 2013, at his home. He was 73. He graduated from…
Herbert Hacker Jr. *60
Herbert Hacker, a retired associate professor of electrical engineering at Duke University, died of natural causes Dec. 1, 2012, at the age of 82. During…
Peter R. Lyman *48
Peter Lyman, the renowned coach of the University of Rochester’s tennis and squash teams, died Sept. 28, 2012. He was 86. Lyman graduated from Rochester…
Arthur H. Whiteley *45
Arthur Whiteley, the eminent sea-urchin developmental and cell biologist who retired in 1985 as professor emeritus of zoology at the University of Washington, died April…
Jonathan D. Harvey *72
Jonathan Harvey, an admired British composer, died Dec. 4, 2012. He was 73, and had Lou Gehrig’s disease. Harvey graduated from Cambridge in 1960, and…
Abraham S. Venable *69
Abraham Venable, retired executive director of urban affairs for General Motors, died Feb. 21, 2013. He was 82. Venable graduated from Howard University with bachelor’s…
Edward A. Stettner *68
Edward Stettner, the Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science emeritus at Wellesley College, died at home, March 10, 2013. He was…
Lawrence A. Shepp *61
Lawrence Shepp, the Patrick T. Harker Professor in the Statistics Department at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, died April 23, 2013, after a fall…
Hallam Walker ’43 *52
Hallam “Hocky” Walker of Davidson, N.C., died Jan. 12, 2012, from Parkinson’s disease. Born May 23, 1921, in Newark, N.J., he graduated from Columbia High…
David W. Morgan *92
David Morgan, professor of modern language at Furman University, died Feb. 6, 2013, at the age of 53. Morgan graduated from Wofford College in 1981…
Robert S. Queener *66
Robert Queener, who had been a foreign service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), died March 12, 2013, of complications from Parkinson’s…
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.
PAW IN PRINT
July 2026
Architect Tod Williams ’65 *67 reflects on the Obama Presidential Center; rain and revelry at Reunions.
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