MEMORIALS
Gordon Woodward Daiger ’53
Gordon was born in Washington, D.C., and spent his whole life in that area except for brief excursions to Princeton and Japan. At Princeton he…
Clinton Gilbert Jr. ’51
Clint was born March 10, 1930, in New York City to Clinton and Elizabeth Gilbert. His father was a member of the Class of 1921…
William H.R. White II ’49
Bill died Sept. 29, 2019, in Shrewsbury, N.J., just a few miles from Red Bank, where he was born and spent his entire professional career…
Michael C. Gill ’49
Michael died Oct. 13, 2019, in Bayanup, Western Australia, with his daughters, Alice Gill and Laura Hardman, at his side. A lifetime potter, he was…
Thomas Smyth ’48
Tom was born May 12, 1927, and grew up in Indiana, Pa., where his father, an ornithologist, was head of sciences at Indiana State Teachers…
John F. Garber Jr. ’48
John was born July 10, 1925, in Lancaster, Pa. He died Dec. 2, 2019, in a retirement center in Willow Street, Pa. After public school…
Forster W. Freeman ’48
Forster was born April 19, 1927, in Paterson, N.J. At Princeton Forster majored in economics, but his life work became teaching and pastoring in human…
Patrick J. Foley Jr. *67
Patrick Foley, retired director of corporate new business development at DuPont Co., died at home Aug. 21, 2019, at the age of 78. He graduated…
Herbert Josephs *63
Herbert Josephs, professor emeritus at Michigan State University (MSU), died peacefully at home July 27, 2019, at age 86. Josephs graduated from Brooklyn College in…
Paul J. Hollander *63
Paul Hollander, retired professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, died at home April 9, 2019, at age 86. In 1956 Hollander…
John T. Sibilia *62
John Sibilia, a physicist who had a 40-year career at Bell Telephone Laboratories, died May 22, 2019, at the age of 85. Born in Newark…
Marvin E. Kauffman *60
Marvin Kauffman, who taught geology at Franklin & Marshall College for 25 years before joining the American Geological Institute and later the National Science Foundation…
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
July 2026
Architect Tod Williams ’65 *67 reflects on the Obama Presidential Center; rain and revelry at Reunions.
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