MEMORIALS
Stuart Duncan ’50
Stu, our class vice president, died peacefully April 30, 2021, at his Princeton home. He graduated from the Wooster School in Danbury, Conn., and served…
Stirling H. Carpenter ’50
Stirling died Feb. 9, 2021, in Porto, Portugal, after contracting COVID-19. He had lived in Porto for almost 25 years. He graduated from Episcopal Academy…
John D. Pomfret ’49
John died Feb. 24, 2021, in Seattle. He was the retired executive vice president of The New York Times. John graduated magna cum laude in…
MacFarlane L. Cates Jr. ’49
Mac died May 2, 2021, in Spartanburg, S.C., at his lifetime home. Mac attended Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va. While at Princeton, where his…
Robert Brinkerhoff ’48
Brink was born March 12, 1926, and grew up in Bogota, N.J. He attended Blair Academy, did Navy service before college, and graduated in 1951…
Maurice D. Lee Jr. ’46 *50
Maurice died July 12, 2020. He was a longtime resident of Cranbury, N.J. Born in 1925 in Buffalo, N.Y., he was educated at the Hotchkiss…
Maurice D. Lee Jr. ’46 *50
Maurice died July 12, 2020. He was a longtime resident of Cranbury, N.J. Born in 1925 in Buffalo, N.Y., he was educated at the Hotchkiss…
Lloyd P. Lochridge Jr. ’38
Lloyd was born Feb. 3, 1918, in Austin, Texas, and died April 13, 2021, of natural causes. He grew up in Forest Hills, N.Y., while…
Sydney Bruce Samet *85
Bruce died April 14, 2019, in Winston-Salem, N.C., of a cerebral vascular accident at the age of 72. Born in Chicago, Bruce completed undergraduate studies…
Thomas S. LaFarge *82
Tom was born Sept. 2, 1947, and died Oct. 22, 2020, in Brooklyn, N.Y., after a long struggle with cancer. During his undergraduate years at…
John H. Pruett *73
John died April 9, 2021, in Champaign, Ill., after a long battle with cancer. He was 74 years old. John grew up in Emporia, Va…
Robert M. Burns *72
Robert died Dec. 26, 2020, in London, of COVID-19. Born Aug. 1, 1942, in Preston, Lancashire, UK, Robert completed undergraduate degrees in history and theology…
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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November 2026
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