MEMORIALS
George H. Watkins ’41
George died Feb. 8, 2011, at the Cheshire Medical Center-Dartmouth Hitchcock Keene after a brief illness. He had lived in Walpole, N.H., for 30-odd years…
Leroy K. McCune ’40 *50
Roy died March 16, 2011, in Greenville, Del. He was 93. After preparing at the Friends School, he majored in chemical engineering at Princeton, was…
Howard M. Taylor ’40
Howard died March 19, 2011, in Dedham, Mass. The young man we knew as “Howie” attended Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School in Brooklyn. At Princeton…
William Walser Janeway ’39
Wals died Feb. 8, 2011, in Guilford, Conn., after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He had just celebrated his 94th birthday. Wals entered Princeton…
G. Arthur Howell Jr. ’39
After earning his law degree from Harvard in 1942, his professional career as a lawyer and civic leader was centered in Atlanta. He was a…
Charles H. Alexander Jr. ’69
Word just recently reached us of the Sept. 1, 2002, death of Charles H. “Chip” Alexander Jr. Chip drowned while swimming in rough surf off…
Richard A. Zeis ’66
(The following memorial was posted at PAW Online on April 27, 2011; it did not appear in the print editions of PAW.) The Class learned…
Lee M. Miller ’60
Lee died of heart failure Jan. 31, 2011, at his home in East Syracuse, N.Y. Born and raised in Trenton, N.J., Lee attended the Peddie…
Nye R. Larrimer ’58
Nye died Oct. 28, 2010, at his home in Columbus, Ohio. He came to Princeton from Columbus Academy. He majored in psychology, ate at Tiger…
Edward R. Busch ’58
Eddie died Dec. 10, 2010, in Savannah, Ga., after a long illness. He came to Princeton from the Horace Mann School in New York City…
Stephen B. Locurcio ’58
Steve died Nov. 18, 2010, in Brooksville, Fla. He came to us from Park Ridge High School in Hillsdale, N.J. A biology major, Steve took…
Richard Krecker ’55
Dick Krecker died Jan. 12, 2011, in Scottsdale , Ariz. He was born Sept. 18, 1933, in East Orange, N.J. He and his twin brother…
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
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Architect Tod Williams ’65 *67 reflects on the Obama Presidential Center; rain and revelry at Reunions.
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