MEMORIALS
Norman Ward Jr. ’47
Norm’s Princeton career was interrupted in 1944, when he joined the Army Air Corps and served for three years as a navigator and bombardier. Returning…
Jackson E. Heffner ’46
Jackson Heffner died peacefully Jan. 3, 2011, at his son’s home in Cookeville, Tenn. Born in San Francisco Dec. 1, 1924, he grew up in…
Donald H. Gordon ’46
Donald Gordon died March 28, 2011, at his home in Honolulu, Hawaii. Born in Brookline, Mass., he attended high school there. Entering Princeton in June…
Howard J. Brown ’46
Howard Brown died of stomach cancer April 29, 2011, at home in Kenosha, Wis. Born July 31, 1923, in Chicago, he graduated from the Laboratory…
Francis X. Critchlow ’46
Frank died peacefully Jan. 4, 2011, at home. He was born Dec. 18, 1923, in Princeton, N.J., and attended local schools before entering Princeton University…
Andrew D. Berkey II ’45
Andy Berkey died April 6, 2011, at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Andy entered Princeton from the Latin School of Chicago and joined Cottage…
William W. Stewart ’45
Wat Stewart died Jan. 22, 2011, after a long illness. Wat entered Princeton from Hotchkiss and was active in musical organizations including the choir, Glee…
Lloyd Michael Rives ’44
Mike Rives died April 14, 2011, in Boston after a long illness. He was a son of Reginald Rives 1912. Mike attended St. George’s School…
William A. Rusher ’44
Known as the “conservative’s champion,” Bill Rusher died April 16, 2011, after a long illness in San Francisco, where he had lived for 22 years…
John R. Poffenberger ’42
John Poffenberger died Feb. 21, 2011, in Lebanon, N.H. John prepared at the Horace Mann School in New York City. At Princeton he majored in…
S. Elliott Hume ’42
After the war, Elliott worked as an investment officer, first at Citibank and then at Smith Barney Harris Upham, from which he retired as a…
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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