MEMORIALS
Douglass S. Parker *52
Douglass Parker, professor of classics emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, died of cancer on Feb. 8, 2011. He was 83. After service…
Pierre Samuel *47
Pierre Samuel, professor of mathematics emeritus at the University of Paris-South, died Aug. 23, 2009, at the age of 87. Samuel published his first math…
Kai Lai Chung *47
Kai Lai Chung, professor of mathematics emeritus at Stanford and a noted specialist in probability theory, died June 1, 2009. He was 91. Born in…
Raymond B. Griffiths *40
Raymond Griffiths, retired executive editor of The Journal of Cell Biology at Rockefeller University, died Oct. 3, 2011. He was 96. Griffiths graduated from Rochester…
Brinston B. Collins *69
Brinston Collins, professor emeritus of political science at Norfolk (Va.) State University, died April 7, 2011. He was 74. Collins graduated from Morehouse College in…
John C. Baird *64
John Baird, a retired professor of psychology at Dartmouth, died peacefully at home June 8, 2011, at the age of 72. Baird graduated from Dartmouth…
James H. Griesmer *58
James Griesmer, a retired IBM research scientist, died Dec. 20, 2011. He was 82. Griesmer graduated from Notre Dame in 1951, then served in the…
Severn P.C. Duvall Jr. *55
Severn Duvall, the Henry S. Fox Jr. Professor of English emeri tus at Washington and Lee University (W&L), died at home March 2, 2012. He…
Robert A. Koch *54
Robert Koch, professor emeritus of art at Princeton, died Nov. 10, 2011, after a lengthy illness. He was 91. In 1940 and 1942, Koch earned…
Richard M. Lee *51
Richard Lee, a retired major general in the Army, died Nov. 24, 2011. He was 94. Lee graduated from the University of Maryland in 1940…
Alan H. Vrooman ’34 *40
Alan Vrooman died April 21, 2012, at RiverWoods in Exeter, N.H., after a period of declining health. He was 98. After receiving his Ph.D. from…
John Bardeen *36
The following memorial was published online Aug. 13, 2012. John Bardeen, who died Jan. 30, 1991, at age 82 and who won two Nobel Prizes…
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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