MEMORIALS
R. Fred Iacobelli *54
Fred Iacobelli, who was a Navy officer from 1945 to 1965 and later worked at implementing Arizona’s vehicle-emissions program, died Nov. 2, 2011. He was…
Eliot S. Berkley *52
Eliot Berkley, the retired longtime executive director of the International Relations Council in Kansas City, Mo., died Sept. 17, 2012. He was 88. Born in…
Charles R. Biggs ’50 *51
Charlie died Nov. 2, 2012, at the Winchester (Va.) Medical Center. He was a resident of Berkeley Springs, W.Va. After graduating from Wilmington (Del.) Friends…
Geoffrey B. Leech *49
Geoffrey Leech, a retired Canadian government geologist, died April 17, 2012, while walking in the woods. He was 93. Leech graduated from the University of…
Robert Bailey *69
Robert Bailey, faculty member at Juilliard and the retired Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Music emeritus at NYU, died of cancer July 6, 2012…
Donald B. Knudsen *65
Donald Knudsen, retired member of the technical staff of Lucent Technologies (successor to AT&T’s Bell Laboratories), died Dec. 29, 2011. He was 74. Knudsen graduated…
Gregory T. Polletta *61
Gregory Polletta, retired professor of modern literature at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), died peacefully Aug. 6, 2012. He was 82. Born in Italy, he…
Walter H. Evert Jr. *60
Walter Evert, professor of English emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, died April 5, 2012. He was 88. Evert joined the Navy after the attack…
Eugene J. Saletan *60
Eugene Saletan, a retired professor of physics emeritus at Northeastern University, died July 3, 2012, of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He was 87. During World War II…
James M. Phillips ’49 *59
James Phillips died Aug. 2, 2012, from complications of a fall. Jim was born March 21, 1929, in Pittsburgh. He came to Princeton from Peabody…
Allan King Poole Jr. ’49 *52
Allan Poole died Nov. 1, 2012. He was born May 28, 1927, in New Haven, Conn., and came to Princeton from Kent School and after…
Gerard J. Campbell *57
Gerard Campbell, former president of Georgetown University who was a priest for 61 years and a Jesuit for 72 years, died Aug. 9, 2012. He…
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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