MEMORIALS
Huan T. Tran *02
Huan Tran, a research physicist, died Dec. 12, 2009, while sleeping. He was 35. Born in Vietnam, he was brought to the United States when…
Allan N. Kornblum *73
Allan Kornblum died Feb. 12, 2010, of esophageal cancer. He was 71. Kornblum received a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State and a law degree from…
Charles B. Zucker *70
Charles Zucker, an architect and urban planner, died Feb. 5, 2010, five productive years after the detection of pancreatic cancer. He was 66. Zucker received…
Donald Ernst Bedard ’44 *56
Donald Bedard died April 7, 2010, in Wilmington, Del., after a long illness. He was 88. Born in Schenectady, N.Y., Donald grew up in Springfield…
Peter C. Speers Jr. ’44 *49
Peter died Feb. 8, 2010, in Austin, Texas, where he had lived since his retirement in 1981. Born and raised in India by missionary parents…
Logan Chappell Bostian ’44 *49
Logan died April 8, 2010, in Williamsburg, Va. He was 87. A chemistry major at Princeton, he roomed with Bob Claytor, Ben Burns, and Tom…
John J. Simonetti III *81
John Simonetti, an expert in materials science, died Dec. 24, 2009, at home. He was 60. Simonetti received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1972…
Albert James Fenton Jr. ’54 *59
Jim died March 8, 2010, of colon cancer. Born in Passaic, N.J., he graduated from Willoughby Union High School. His Princeton major was chemistry. He…
Wesley R. Smith *57
Wesley Smith, a professor of physics at Lehigh University for 43 years, died Jan. 2, 2010, at the age of 81. Smith received bachelor’s and…
Henry John Fitzell Jr. ’44 *54
A career educator who earned his bachelor’s ( cum laude), master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in modern languages and literature from Princeton, John died Feb. 2…
John Krom Rudd ’38 *39
John K. Rudd died Jan. 23, 2010, at his home in Lakeville, Conn. John prepared for Princeton at Asheville School in Asheville, N.C. At Princeton…
Alan S. Zuckerman *71
Alan Zuckerman, a professor of political science who had taught at Brown University since 1970, died Aug. 20, 2009. He was 64. Zuckerman received 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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